Released: October 28, 2002
Songwriter: Michael White (Songwriter) Harley Allen
Producer: Bobby Braddock
[Click here to read Blake’s story about “The Baby”]
[Verse 1]
My brother said that I
Was rotten to the core
I was the youngest child
So I got by with more
[Verse 2]
I guess she was tired by
The time I came along
She'd laugh until she cried
I could do no wrong
She would always save me
Because I was her baby
[Verse 3]
I worked a factory in Ohio
A shrimp boat in the Bayou
I drove a truck in Birmingham
Turned 21 in Cincinnati
I called home to mom and daddy
I said "Your boy is now a man"
She said "I don't care if you're 80
You’ll always be my baby"
[Verse 4]
She loved that photograph
Of our whole family
She'd always point us out
For all her friends to see
[Verse 5]
That's Greg he's doing great
He really loves his job
And Ronnie with his 2 kids
How about that wife he's got
And that one's kind of crazy
But that one is my baby
[Verse 6]
I got a call in Alabama
Said come on home to Louisiana
And come as fast as you can fly
Cause your mamma really needs you
And says she's got to see you
She might not make it through the night
The whole way I drove 80
So she could see her baby
[Verse 7]
She looked like she was sleeping
And my family had been weeping
By the time that I got to her side
And I knew that she'd been taken
And my heart it was breaking
I never got to say goodbye
[Outro]
I softly kissed that lady
And cried just like a baby
[Verse 1]
My brother said that I
Was rotten to the core
I was the youngest child
So I got by with more
[Verse 2]
I guess she was tired by
The time I came along
She'd laugh until she cried
I could do no wrong
She would always save me
Because I was her baby
[Verse 3]
I worked a factory in Ohio
A shrimp boat in the Bayou
I drove a truck in Birmingham
Turned 21 in Cincinnati
I called home to mom and daddy
I said "Your boy is now a man"
She said "I don't care if you're 80
You’ll always be my baby"
[Verse 4]
She loved that photograph
Of our whole family
She'd always point us out
For all her friends to see
[Verse 5]
That's Greg he's doing great
He really loves his job
And Ronnie with his 2 kids
How about that wife he's got
And that one's kind of crazy
But that one is my baby
[Verse 6]
I got a call in Alabama
Said come on home to Louisiana
And come as fast as you can fly
Cause your mamma really needs you
And says she's got to see you
She might not make it through the night
The whole way I drove 80
So she could see her baby
[Verse 7]
She looked like she was sleeping
And my family had been weeping
By the time that I got to her side
And I knew that she'd been taken
And my heart it was breaking
I never got to say goodbye
[Outro]
I softly kissed that lady
And cried just like a baby
The Blake Shelton Collection
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- You’ll Always Be Beautiful
- Can’t Afford To Love You
- Delilah
- Almost Alright
- All About Tonight
- Who Are You When I’m Not Looking
- That Thing We Do
- Draggin’ The River
- Suffocating
- Kiss My Country Ass
- Hillbilly Bone
- I’ll Just Hold On
- She Wouldn’t Be Gone
- 100 Miles
- Never Lovin’ You
- Country Strong
- Home Sweet Home
- This Is Gonna Take All Night
- Here I Am
- Bare Skin Rug
- Got a Little Country
- Honey Bee
- Ready To Roll
- Country On The Radio
- My Eyes
- Doin’ What She Likes
- I Still Got A Finger
- Mine Would Be You
- Lay Low
- Ten Times Crazier
- Grandaddy’s Gun
- Chances
- Small Town Big Time
- Do You Remember
- God Gave Me You
- Get Some
- Drink On It
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- I’m Sorry
- Sunny In Seattle
- Over
- Hey
- Red River Blue
- I Can’t Walk Away
- Green
- Austin
- Heavy Liftin’
- The Baby
- Asphalt Cowboy
- In My Heaven
- The Dreamer
- My Neck Of The Woods
- Underneath The Same Moon
- Georgia In A Jug
- Playboys Of The Southwestern World
- If I Was Your Man
- Problems At Home
- Sure Be Cool If You Did
- Boys ’Round Here
- Every Time I Look At You
- All Over Me
- She Doesn’t Know She’s Got It
- Ol’ Red
- I Thought There Was Time
- Same Old Song
- That’s What I Call Home
- Someday
- Some Beach
- Nobody But Me
- The More I Drink
- I Don’t Care
- She Don’t Love Me
- Back There Again
- It Ain’t Easy Bein’ Me
- What I Wouldn’t Give
- I Have Been Lonely
- She Can’t Get That
- The Last Country Song
- Don’t Make Me
- This Can’t Be Good
- Good Old Boy, Bad Old Boyfriend
- Love Gets In The Way
- Goodbye Time
- Cotton Pickin’ Time
- What’s On My Mind
- When Somebody Knows You That Well
- On A Good Day
- The Bartender
- I Drink
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- Stripped: Raw & Real (2007)
- Loaded: The Best of Blake Shelton (2010)
- The Blake Shelton Collection (2013)
- Today’s Best Country Hits (2015)
- Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits (2015)
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- Nobody But You
- Turnin’ Me On
- Boys ’Round Here
- She’s Got a Way With Words
- I Lived It
- Minimum Wage
- Austin
- I’ll Name the Dogs
- A Guy With a Girl
- Sangria
- Mine Would Be You
- Hell Right
- Bet You Still Think About Me
- Every Time I Hear That Song
- Happy Anywhere
- Ol’ Red
- Came Here to Forget
- God Gave Me You
- Sure Be Cool If You Did
- Home (”Cheers, It’s Christmas”)
- Go Ahead and Break My Heart
- We Can Reach the Stars
- Lonely Tonight