Walkin’ My Baby Back Home (1930)
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(wm) Roy Turk, Fred Ahlert (P) Harry Richman (RR) 1952 Johnny Ray (RR) 1953 film: Walkin’ My Baby Back Home by Donald O’Connor (CR) Nat King Cole
Gee, it’s great after bein’ out late walkin’ my baby back home
Arm in arm over meadow and farm walkin’ my baby back home
We go ’long harmonizin’ a song or I’m reciting a poem
Owls go by and they give me the eye
Walkin’ my baby back home

We stop for awhile, she gives me a smile
And snuggles her head to my chest
We start in to pet and that’s when I get her powder all my vest
After I kinda straighten my tie she has to borrow my comb
One kiss and then I continue again walkin’ my baby back home

[Bridge] She’s ’fraid of the dark so I have to park
Outside of her door till it’s light
She says if I try to kiss her she’ll cry
I dry her tears all through the night
Hand in hand to a barbecue stand
Right from her doorway we roam
Eats, and then it’s a pleasure again walkin’ my baby back home