Intro

Verse 1

Babe, baby, baby,

I’m gonna leave you,  

I said baby, you know I’m gonna

leave you.    

I’ll leave you when the summer- time,

Leave you when the summer comes a-rollin’,

    leave you when the summer comes along.

Interlude

Verse 2

Babe,babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, baby, mmm, baby,

I don’t wanna leave you.

I ain’t jokin’ woman, I got to ramble.

Oh, ye- ah,

baby, baby, I be- liev- in’,

we really got to ramble.   

I can hear it callin’ me the way it

used to do 

I can hear it callin’ me back home!

Interlude

Pre-Chorus

Interlude

used to do? Ohhhhh

Solo

Verse

I know, I know, I know I’m never, never, never gonna

leave your babe, but I got to go away from this place,

I’ve got to quit you, yeah Oh

baby, baby, baby, baby,

Verse

Oh, wom- an,  

wo- man, I know, I know

It feels good to have you back again, and I know that one day baby, it’s gonna really

grow, yes it is. We gonna go walkin’ through the park every day.

Verse

go away  

So good sweet baby It was really,

really good. You made me happy every single day.

But now… I’ve got to go away!

Instrumental

Baby Baby baby

Outro

That’s when it’s callin’ me

I said that’s when it’s callin’ me back ho- me…