Cry Baby

Album

Cry Baby

Label

United Artists Records

Genre

Rhythm & Blues

Media Type

45s

Duration

3:22

Composer(s)

Bert Russell;Norman Meade

Entered Chart

Aug 17, 1963

Peak Date

Oct 12, 1963

Released

August 5, 1963

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

United Artists 629

B-Side

Don't Change Your Heart

"Cry Baby" is a song originally recorded by Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters, in 1963, and later recorded by rock singer Janis Joplin in 1970. Bert Berns wrote the song with Jerry Ragovoy. Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters recorded it for the United Artists record label. It topped the R&B chart and went to #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963, paving the way for soul hits by Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding later in the decade. The third verse was spoken by Mimms until the repeated refrain of the repeated song title. In Canada the song reached #5 on the CHUM Charts. On the New Zealand lever hit parade it peaked at #5

[Chorus]
Cry cry baby, cry baby, cry baby,
Welcome back home.

Now he told you, that he loved you much more than I
But he left you and you don't you just don't know why
And when you don't know what to do
You come running and 

[Chorus]

Well I can always lose, 
Don't you know nobody can love you the way that I do
Take the pain and the heartache too
Ah honey you know that I'll be around 
When you need to 

[Chorus]

Welcome back home

I've spent so many nights 
Just waiting for you to come walking through that door
And even tho you've made a fool of me so many times before 
I know that all it takes is just the sight of your face
To make me realize that I will always love you darlin
And I can see that you got some more tears to shed
I can see it baby, cause your eyes, your eyes are getting red

So c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon c'mon
Cry cry baby, cry baby, cry baby,
Cry cry baby, cry baby, cry baby,