Tune Req: merle travis transcriptions

Subject: Tune Req: merle travis transcriptions
From: volsfan
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 12:13 PM

Does anyone know of any transcriptions of Merle's I gotta have my baby back or lazy river?

Subject: Lyr Add: I GOTTA HAVE MY BABY BACK (Floyd Tillman
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 27 Aug 16 - 12:12 AM

Merle Travis recorded this as an instrumental, so I assume you wanted sheet music or tablature. Sorry, I can't help with that, but I can provide the lyrics:


I GOTTA HAVE MY BABY BACK
Written by Floyd Tillman
As recorded by Floyd Tillman, 1949.

Baby, baby,
I miss you so very much, it hurts me.
Baby, I just gotta, I gotta have my baby back.

Can't sleep, and I can't eat,
'Cause I've lost my sweet baby sweet.
I just gotta, I just gotta, I gotta have my baby back.

Alone in a tavern, people all around,
Laugin' and dancin', paintin' the town,
Jukebox is playin' songs about you,
Songs with memories makin' me blue.

Baby, come on home.
Without my baby I just can't get along.
I gotta, I just gotta, I gotta have my baby back.


[Lots of other people recorded this too: Ella Fitzgerald with the Mills Brothers, Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard, Hank Thompson, Rex Allen, Rusty Draper, Red Foley, Tennessee Ernie Ford.]