Edit (alt.) for headphones, April 2021. The organ sound is much more prominent in this version. Real funny surprising intro. Source of the edit is track 14 on cd 1 of the album "Pearl" (remastered legacy edition). "Pearl" was released in 1971, it is Janis' second and final solo studio album, released posthumously on January 11, 1971, three months after her death on October 4, 1970. It was the final album with her direct participation, and the only Joplin album recorded with the Full Tilt Boogie Band, her final touring unit. It peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200, holding that spot for nine weeks. It has been certified quadruple platinum.
CRY BABY
(Jerry Ragovoy/Bert Berns)
cry baby, cry baby, cry baby
welcome back home
I know she told you
I know she told you that she loved you
much more than I did
but I know she left you
and you swear that you just don't know why
well honey I swear I'll always be around
if you ever want me come on and
cry, cry baby, cry baby, cry baby yeah
oh like you always seem to do
don't you know
honey nobody ever gonna love you
the way I try to do
who'll be willing to take your pain
and all your heartache too?
honey I swear I'll always, always be around
if you ever want me come on and
cry, cry baby, cry baby yeah, cry baby
oh, daddy, welcome back home, yeah
I know when you're shopping around baby
she says the grass always looks greener
when you're looking over there
in somebody else's back yard
so I know what you're tryin' to tell me
when you say my my my my
I gotta go out shopping for my life
I gotta find my, my own true third eye fine christian identity
out there in the road there
and although may be comfortable here
sleeping in your nice bed with all those satin sheets
and all that fur and eating all that chicken
getting stoned having a good time
I have to go and (...?) it
I have to go to Africa
or I have to go to Omaha
or some place like that
I have to find myself, you know what I mean
so he just (...?) me and walkin' around
the f*ckin' highways of America
with a pack on his back
looking for his identity, right?
but I wanna say baby don't you know
you left your mama her home?
you're like a good lovin' mama right here home
and that should be identity enough for any man, ha ha
so I said baby, he he
I know that you're gonna come home to me someday
and I'll be the one to tell when you walk in my front door
I just do believe that I just look in your eyes
said lord let he finally realize
so you can push your head on my shoulder baby
cause I know you got some more tears to share
come on let it go
so come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, honey
cry, cry baby, cry baby, cry
honey you got some more tears to share
honey don't let nothing stand in your way, baby
you have nothing to fear from me
you don't have to wait there
you can just let it go baby, come on
honey cry, cry, wow, cry to me baby
