Blake Shelton - The Baby guitar chord

The Baby

Blake Shelton

Submitted By Tiny man

Capo 2nd Fret

[Intro] D D/F# G A D

D D/F# G A D D/F# G D/F# Em7 A

My brother said that I, was rotten to the core I was the youngest child, so I got by with more

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I guess she was tired by, the time I came along She'd laugh until she cried, I could do no wrong

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She would always save me, ___because I was her baby

[Chorus]

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I worked a factory in Ohio, a shrimp boat in the Bayou I drove a truck in Birmingham

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Turned 21 in Cincinnati, I called home to mom and daddy___ I said "Your boy is now a man."

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She said, "I don't care if you're 80,____ you'll always be my baby."

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She loved that photograph; of our whole family She'd always point us out, for all her friends to see

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That's Greg he's doing great, he really loves his job And Ronnie with his 2 kids, how 'bout that wife

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He?s got and that one's kinda crazy, ____but that one is my baby

[Chorus]

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I got a call in Alabama, said come on home to Louisiana ___and come as fast as you can fly

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Cause your momma really needs you, and says she's got to see you____ She might not make it through

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The Night The whole way I drove 80, ___so she could see her baby

[Chorus]

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She looked like she was sleepin', and my family had been weepin'____ By the time that I got to her side

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And I knew that she'd been taken, and my heart it was breakin' I never got to say goodbye

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I softly kissed that lady, ____ and cried just like a baby______________________