The Baby

Song The Baby
Artist Blake Shelton
Album The Dreamer

Lyrics

[00:08.660] My brother said that I
[00:14.145] was rotten to the core.
[00:19.657] I was the youngest child,
[00:25.117] so I got by with more.
[00:30.837] I guess she was tired by
[00:36.114] the time I came along.
[00:41.940] She'd laugh until she cried,
[00:47.425] I could do no wrong.
[00:52.258] She would always save me,
[00:56.228] because I was her baby.
[01:02.733] I worked a factory in Ohio,
[01:06.155] a shrimp boat in the Bayou,
[01:09.394] I drove a truck in Birmingham.
[01:13.652] Turned 21 in Cincinnati,
[01:16.970] I called home to mom and daddy,
[01:20.548] I said "Your boy is now a man."
[01:25.094] She said "I don't care if you're 80,
[01:29.508] you'll always be my baby."
[01:37.502] She loved that photograph,
[01:42.753] of our whole family.
[01:48.395] She'd always point us out,
[01:54.011] for all her friends to see.
[01:59.628] That's Greg he's doing great,
[02:04.983] he really loves his job.
[02:10.756] And Ronnie with his 2 kids,
[02:16.137] how 'bout that wife he's got.
[02:20.944] And that one's kinda crazy,
[02:25.071] but that one is my baby.
[02:31.575] I got a call in Alabama,
[02:34.344] said come on home to Louisianna
[02:38.158] and come as fast as you can fly.
[02:42.547] Cause your momma really needs you,
[02:45.734] and says she's got to see you,
[02:49.339] she might not make it through the night.
[02:54.145] The whole way I drove 80
[02:58.455] so she could see her baby.
[03:05.326] She looked like she was sleepin'
[03:07.964] and my family had been weepin'
[03:11.491] by the time that I got to her side.
[03:16.010] And I knew that she'd been taken,
[03:19.066] and my heart it was breakin',
[03:22.619] I never got to say goodbye.
[03:27.582] I softly kissed that lady
[03:32.310] and cried just like a baby.