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Baby Come Back

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A US Top 40 hit in the fall of '68 for the Equals - and yes, that's the
same Eddy Grant who had a huge hit 15 years later with 'Electric Avenue'.

                            "Baby Come Back"
                              (Eddy Grant)

Intro:

	first bar of chorus riff (w/tremolo); 1-bar drum fill

	chorus riff [2X] w/band:

	(B)           (F#)
	 v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v
	-----------------|-----------------|
	-----------------|-----------------|
	-----------------|-----------------|
	-----------------|-----------------|
	-2---2-----2-----|-----------2-----|
	---------4---4-2-|-----2-2-4---4---|

Chorus:

	      B     F#
	Come back
	            B      F#
	Baby, come back
	            B      F#
	Baby, come back
	            B      F#
	Baby, come back

Verse 1:

	(F#)
	 v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v
	-----------------|-----------------|
	-----------------|-----------------|
	-----------------|-----------------|
	---------1---2---|-----------------|
	-----------2---4-|-----------------|
	(2)-(2)----------|-2---2---2---2---|

	F#
	This is the first time [unintelligible] today
	That you have run away
	I'm asking you for the first time
	Love me [unintelligible] stay  (all right)
	Hey (all right)
	Hey (all right!)
	Hey, yeah

[repeat chorus]

Verse 2:

	There ain't no use in you crying
	'Cause I'm more hurt than you
	I shoulda not been out flirting
	But now my love is true
	Ooh  (all right)
	Ooh  (OK!)
	Ooh, yeah

[repeat chorus]

Verse 3:

	Come back, baby, don't you leave me
	Baby, baby, please don't go
	Oh, won't you give me a second chance
	Baby, I love you so  (all right)
	Oh  (oh, yeah)
	Oh  [unintelligible]
	Oh, yeah

Coda:

	      B      F#   (repeat as per chorus)
	Come back
	I said baby, come back
	I said baby, come back
	Oh won't you please come back
	Oh won't you please come back [continue to fade]


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers