Be My Baby Chords

KeyC Capo3st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays473

Be My Baby by Kate & Anna McGarrigle is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 3st fret. It uses the chords C, G, Am, F, D7 and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C
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verse 1 
C 
Be my baby, be my baby 
           G 
Be my baby now 
C 
Be my baby, be my baby 
           G 
Be my baby now 


verse 2 
        C                               G 
There’s no one in the world that's gonna harm you, baby 
   C                 G      C 
Or lead you down the garden path 
                       G               C 
With my own two loving arms all around you 

 
  Am               C 
I don’t know why I live at home 
  F                D7 
I don’t know why I sleep alone 
    G                  C 
I’m hoping you’ve no objection 
             G              C 
To being the object of my affection 
        G 
I could keep you warm 
        C              G               C 
With my own two loving arms all around you 


verse 3 

Be my baby, we’ll go crazy 
                          G 
Dance by the light of the moon 
C 
Be my baby and please this lady 
                 G 
Please this lady soon 


verse 4 
         C                         G 
When the moon’s not bright and the stars aren’t right 
        C                 G 
And the sky is making you blue 
  C                G                   C 
Remember that only good could surround you 

 
  Am               C 
I don’t know why I live at home 
  F                D7 
I don’t know why I sleep alone 
    G                  C 
I’m hoping you’ve no objection 
             G              C 
To being the object of my affection 
        G 
I could keep you warm 
        C              G               C 
With my own two loving arms all around you 


Instrumental: C    G  C    G  C  G  C  G  C  G 


  Am               C 
I don’t know why I live at home 
  F                D7 
I don’t know why I sleep alone 
    G                  C 
I’m hoping you’ve no objection 
             G              C 
To being the object of my affection 
        G 
I could keep you warm 
        C              G               C 
With my own two loving arms all around you 


Verse 5 
C 
Be my baby, be my baby 
           G 
Be my baby now 
Am          Dm 
Be my baby, be my baby 
C           G          C 
Be my baby, be my baby now 
G          C 
Be my baby now 
G          C 
Be my baby now 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

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

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante