Cry Like a Baby Lyrics

The Box Tops' second-biggest hit, this peaked at #2 in the spring of '68.
One of my all-time favorites. -- AWR
"Cry Like A Baby"
(Dan Penn - Spooner Oldham)
Intro:
4 bars; electric sitar enters bar 3
Verse 1:
A-when I think about the good love you gave me
3: (c[
I cry like a baby ry like a baby)]
Livin' without you is drivin' me crazy
3: (c[
I cry like a baby ry like a baby)]
I know now that you're not a plaything
Not a toy or a puppet on a string
Break #1:
bass:
v v v v v v v v
Verse 2:
As I look back on a love so sweet now
I cry like a baby
Every road is a lonely street
I cry like a baby
I know now that you're not a plaything
Not a toy or a puppet on a string
Bridge:
Today we passed on the street
And you just walked on by
My heart just fell to my feet
And once again I began to cry
Solo:
(electric sitar):
v v v v v v v v v v v v
v v v v v v v v
v v v v v v v v
repeat first four lines of verse 1, w/background vocals
Break #2:
(bass; chords implied by horns):
N..
v v v v v v v v
v v v v v v v v
(organ arr. for guitar, bars 3 and 4):
v v v v v v v v
Coda:
continue
I know now that you're not a plaything
I cry like a baby (just like a little bitty baby now)
As I look back on a love so sweet, now
I cry like a baby (just like a little bitty baby now)
Every road is a lonely street
I cry like a baby (cry like a baby)
My heart just fell to my feet, you know I
Cry like a baby (cry like a baby)
You left the water running, now
(Cry like a baby)
fade
I cry like a baby (cry like a baby)
-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers