"Baby It's You"


 
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          Key: G Major
      Meter: 4/4
       Form: Intro | Verse | Verse | Verse (first half, piano solo) |
                   | Outro (fade-out)
         CD: "Please Please Me", Track 10 (Parlophone CDP7 46435-2)
   Composer: Mack David / Barney Williams / Burt Bacharach
Influential
    version: The Shirelles (1961)
   Recorded: 11th February 1963, Abbey Road 2;
             20th February 1963, Abbey Road 1
 UK-release: 22nd March 1963 (LP "Please Please Me")
 US-release: 22nd July 1963 (LP "Introducing The Beatles")
 
  
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Intro:
G		Em
Sha la la la la la la la
G		Em
Sha la la la la la la la
G		Em-break
Sha la la la la la la la
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Sha la la la la

Verse 1:
C		
It's not the way you smile 
		        G
That touched my heart. 
(sha la la la la)
C
It's not the way you kiss 
		   G
That tears me apart.

Chorus:
Em	
Uh, oh, many, many, many nights go by,
Am				        G
I sit alone at home and I cry over you.
Em
What can I do?
C		D
Can't help myself, 
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'cause baby, it's you.
G	    Em                    G
(sha la la la la) Baby, it's you.
(sha la la la la)

Verse 2:
C
You should hear what they say
	G
About you, "cheat," "cheat."
(sha la la la la)
C
They say, they say you never,
			    G
never, never, ever been true. (cheat, cheat)

Chorus #2:
Em	
 It doesn't matter what they say,
Am				        G
I know I'm gonna love you any old way.
Em
What can I do?
C		D
Don't want nobody, nobody, 
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'cause baby, it's you.
G	    Em                    G
(sha la la la la) Baby, it's you.
(sha la la la la)

Ad Lib:
C-D7-G? (2x)

Chorus #2:
Em	
 It doesn't matter what they say,
Am				        G
I know I'm gonna love you any old way.
Em
What can I do?
C		D
Don't want nobody, nobody, 
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'cause baby, it's you.
G	    Em                    G
(sha la la la la) Baby, it's you.
(sha la la la la)
 		         G
Don't leave me all alone