EQUALS - "baby come back" Tablature

A US Top 40 hit in the fall of '68 for the Equals - and yes, that's the
same Eddy Grant who had a huge hit 15 years later with 'Electric Avenue'.

"Baby Come Back"
(Eddy Grant)

Intro:

first bar of chorus riff (w/tremolo); 1-bar drum fill

chorus riff [2X] w/band:

(B) (F#)
v v v v v v v v
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-2---2-----2-----|-----------2-----
---------4---4-2-|-----2-2-4---4---

Chorus:

B F#
Come back
B F#
Baby, come back
B F#
Baby, come back
B F#
Baby, come back

Verse 1:

(F#)
v v v v v v v v
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---------1---2---|-----------------
-----------2---4-|-----------------
(2)-(2)----------|-2---2---2---2---

F#
This is the first time [unintelligible] today
That you have run away
I'm asking you for the first time
Love me [unintelligible] stay (all right)
Hey (all right)
Hey (all right!)
Hey, yeah

[repeat chorus]

Verse 2:

There ain't no use in you crying
'Cause I'm more hurt than you
I shoulda not been out flirting
But now my love is true
Ooh (all right)
Ooh (OK!)
Ooh, yeah

[repeat chorus]

Verse 3:

Come back, baby, don't you leave me
Baby, baby, please don't go
Oh, won't you give me a second chance
Baby, I love you so (all right)
Oh (oh, yeah)
Oh [unintelligible]
Oh, yeah

Coda:

B F# (repeat as per chorus)
Come back
I said baby, come back
I said baby, come back
Oh won't you please come back
Oh won't you please come back [continue to fade]


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers