Walking My Baby Back Home Chords

KeyE# CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays515

Walking My Baby Back Home by James Taylor is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of E#. It uses the chords E9/#5, Amaj7, Bm7, C#m7, Dmaj7, C#dim7, F#7, E7, E7/6, G#7, C#m, F#, A, G#7sus4, G#, B7sus4 and B7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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E#
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E9/#5
  
Amaj7    Bm7         C#m7        Dmaj7 
Gee it's great after staying out late 
C#m7       Dmaj7     C#dim7   F#7 
Walking my baby back home 
Bm7    F#7      Bm7        E7 
Arm in arm over meadow and farm 
Bm7        E7/6    Amaj7  E9/#5 
Walking my baby back home 

Amaj7 Bm7      C#m7    Dmaj7 
We go on harmonizing a song 
C#m7       Dmaj7    C#dim7   F#7 
Or she?s reciting a poem 
Bm7      F#7         Bm7         E7 
Owls fly by and they give me the eye 
Bm7        E7/6    Amaj7  G#7 
Walking my baby back home 

   C#m        G#7        C#m        F# 
We stop for a while, she gives me a smile 
    A                       G#7sus4 G# G#7 
And cuddles her cheek to my chest 
C#m         G#7     C#m           F# 
We start to pet and that?s when I get 
B7sus4 B7         G#7     E7/6 E9/#5 
Her    powder all over my vest 

Amaj7 Bm7       C#m7          Dmaj7 
After I sort of straighten my tie 
C#m7       Dmaj7     C#dim7   F#7 
She has to borrow my comb 
Bm7      F#7     Bm7       E7 
One kiss then we continue again 
Bm7        E7/6    Amaj7  G#7 
Walking my baby back home 
Bm7        E7/6    Amaj7 
Walking my baby back home 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante