Baby, I Love You

Album: Aretha Arrives (1967)
Charted: 39 4
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  • If you want my lovin'
    If you really do
    Don't be afraid, baby
    Just ask me
    Ya know I'm gonna give it to you

    Oh, and I do declare (I do)
    I wanna see you with it
    Stretch out your arms, little boy
    You're gonna get it
    'Cause I love you, oh
    (Baby, baby, baby, I love you)
    There ain't no doubt about it
    Baby, I love you
    (Baby, baby, baby, I love you)
    I love you, I love you, I love you
    I love you, baby, I love you

    If you feel you wanna kiss me
    Go right ahead I don't mind
    All you got to do is snap your fingers
    And I'll come a runnin', I ain't lyin'
    (I ain't lyin')
    And oh, what you want
    Little boy, you know you got it
    I'd deny my own self
    Before I see you without it
    'Cause I love you
    (Baby, baby, baby, I love you)
    Ain't no doubt about it, baby, I love you
    (Baby, baby, baby, I love you)
    I love you, I love you, I love you
    I love you, baby, I love you

    Someday ya might wanna run away
    And leave me sittin' here to cry
    But if it's all the same to ya, baby
    I'm gonna stop you from sayin' goodbye
    (Goodbye)
    Baby, I love ya (baby, baby, I love ya)
    Baby, I need ya (baby, baby, I need ya)
    Said I want ya (baby, baby, I want ya)
    Getcha have ya, baby (baby, baby, I love ya)
    Don't let your neighbors tell ya I don't want ya
    (Baby, baby, I want ya)
    Don't let your lowdown friends
    (Baby, baby I want ya) Writer/s: Aretha Franklin, Ronnie Shannon
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Melinda from AustraliaI am just crazy about this song. I love it’s cool up and down rocky rhythm. That Aretha Franklin completely controls effortlessly.

    Did Aretha Franklin ever sing a bad song?. Not to my knowledge. She make could a bad song fantastic. Jus by opening her mouth.
    She really understood music. And so did her sister.
    Aretha Franklin seemed to have an inate knowledge of where to take a song vocally. And was pretty handy on the piano.

    I think she was a person who totally believed in her own talent and ability from very very young. Thank God.

    I’m 53 now, but I didn’t discover the best of her old songs till my late 30’s. When I was divorcing.
    I was astounded how so many of her songs went straight to the heart of matters in relationships. With precise observations. Very Well written songs.
    And I believe Aretha Franklin deliberately chose songs that women would really ‘get’.
    She was also, definitely, an early Feminist. I’ve no doubt about that.
    Her activism in the Civil Rights movement was just half her story. Her old songs seemed to say to men, baby, we love ya, but ya got to treat us right.
    I’ll quote the lyrics from Respect.
    ‘Give me my propers’.
    Proper manners and decency. Seems less of it around these days than then.
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