Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby chords

Carl Lee Perkins

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  			Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby:Carl Perkins. 
Top of the charts in 1956. The Beatles did 
this song again with Perkins in 1964. 

#1. 
E 
Well, they took some honey from a tree, 
                       E7 
Dressed it up and they called it me. 
A 
Everybody's tryin' to be my baby, 
E 
Everybody's tryin' to be my baby, 
B           B7                    E 
Everybody's tryin' to be my baby, now. 

#2.  
E 
I woke up last night, half past four, 
              E7 
fifteen women knockin' at my door. 
A 
Everybody's tryin' to be my baby, 
E 
Everybody's tryin' to be my baby, 
B           B7                    E 
Everybody's tryin' to be my baby, now. 

#3. 
E 
Went out last night, didn't stay late, 
                      E7 
before I'm home I had nineteen dates. 
A 
Everybody's tryin' to be my baby. 
E 
Everybody's tryin' to be my baby, 
B           B7                    E 
Everybody's tryin' to be my baby, now. 

#4. 
E 
Me and my gal sittin' in the shade, 
                             E7 
talkin' 'bout the money that she has made. 
    A 
And everybody's tryin' to be my baby, 
E 
everybody's tryin' to be my baby. 
B           B7                    E 
Everybody's tryin' to be my baby, now. 

#5. 
E 
Well, they took some honey from a tree, 
                       E7 
Dressed it up and they called it me. 
A 
Everybody's tryin' to be my baby, 
E 
Everybody's tryin' to be my baby. 
B           B7                    E 
Everybody's tryin' to be my baby, now.(Verse x2) 


A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.