Baby Please Don't Go

Artist: Muddy Waters & "The Rolling Stones"
Composer: Mary Johnson        Original performers: Big Joe Williams (1935) & Muddy Waters (1953)
First release:
Checkerboard Lounge: Live Chicago 1981 DVD/CD, July 2012
Recording date: November 1981        Recording location: Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago, USA (live)
Supervising producers: Lindsay Brown & Dave Trafford          Mixer: Bob Clearmountain




Line-up:

Drums: Ray Allison
Bass: Earnest Johnson
Electric guitars: Muddy Waters, John Primer, Rick Kreher, Keith Richards & Ron Wood
Vocals: Muddy Waters & Mick Jagger
Harmonica: George "Mojo" Buford
Piano: Lovie Lee
 

Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go

Baby, please don't go, down to New Orleans
You know I love you so

Before I be your dog

Before I be your dog

Before I be your dog,
I get you way down here
I make you walk alone

Turn your lamp down low

Turn your lamp down low

Turn your lamp down low,
I beg you all night long
Baby, please don't go

Come in, son

You know your man down gone
You know your man down gone
You know your man down gone
Down the county farm, he got his shackles on

You brought me way down here

You brought me way down here

You brought me way down here

About to Rolling Forks, you treat me like a dog

Baby, please don't go

Baby, please don't go

Baby, please don't go, down to New Orleans
You know I love you so

Before I be your dog

Before I be your dog

Before I be your dog,
I get you way down here
I make you walk alone

Turn your lamp down low

Turn your lamp down low

Turn your lamp down low,
I beg you all night long
Baby, please don't go


Baby, please don't go

Baby, please don't go

Baby, please don't go, down to New Orleans
You know I love you so

Before I be your dog

Before I be your dog

Before I be your dog,
I get you way down here
I make you walk alone

Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog

Before I be your dog,
I brought you way down here
I brought a rolling stone

Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go

Baby, please don't go, down to New Orleans
Because I love you so


You brought me way down here

You brought me way down here

You brought me way down here

About to Rolling Forks, you treat me like a dog

You brought me way down here

Yeah, way down here

You brought me way down here

About to Rolling Forks, you treat me like a dog

You know your man down gone - your know
your man down gone
You know your man down gone - your know your man down gone
You know your man down gone
Down to the county farm, he got his shackles on

Well, well

Baby, please don't go - baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
- baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go, down to New Orleans
Because I love you so

Let's hear it

Well, all, all...

Play, baby, play

Well alright


Yeah baby, please don't go - baby, please don't go

Baby, please don't go
- ah baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
- ah baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
- baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go, down to New Orleans
Because I love you so

 
 
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