| Walkin' My Baby Back Home
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| -Artist: Nat King Cole
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| -peak Billboard position #8 in 1952
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| -Words and Music by Roy Turk and Fred Ahlert in 1930
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| -charted in 1931 by Nick Lucas (#8), Ted Weems (also #8), the Charleston
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| -Chasers (#15), and Lee Morse (#18)
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| -also charted in 1952 by Johnnie Ray at # 4
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| -title song from the 1953 film starring Donald O’Connor, Janet Leigh, Buddy
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| -Hackett, and Scatman Crothers
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| Gee, it’s great after bein' out late
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| Walkin' my baby back home
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| Arm in arm over meadow and farm
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| Walkin' my baby back home
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| We go 'long harmonizing a song
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| Or I’m recitin' a poem
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| Owls go by and they give me the eye
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| Walkin' my baby back home
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| We stop for a while, she gives me a smile
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| And snuggles her head on my chest
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| We start in to pet and that’s when I get
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| Her talcum all over my vest
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| After I kinda straighten my tie
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| She has to borrow my comb
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| Once kiss then I continue again
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| Walkin' my baby back home
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| She’s 'fraid of the dark so I have to park
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| Outside of her door till it’s light
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| She says if I try to kiss her she’ll cry
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| I dry her tears all through the night
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| Hand in hand to a barbecue stand
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| Right from her doorway we roam
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| Eats and then it’s a pleasure again
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| Walkin' my baby
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| Talkin' my baby
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| Lovin' my baby
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| I don’t mean maybe
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| Walkin' my babyback home |