TheBeatlesOnline

Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby

Recorded October 18 1964.
Available on:
Beatles For Sale
Live At The BBC
Anthology 2 (live from Shea Stadium 15 August 1965)

The Beatles had played this Carl Perkins’s classic live for many years before they decided to record it. Harrison took the lead vocal, his only lead vocal contribution on Beatles For Sale. 20 years later, Perkins and Harrison performed the song together on a tv show called A Rockabilly Session (See also Honey Don’t).

Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby

Well, how come you say you will when you won't?
Say you do, baby when you don't
Let me know, honey, how you fell
Tell the truth now, is love real?
so, aw, aw

Well, honey don't
Well, honey don't
Honey don't
Honey don't
Honey don't
I say you will when you won't
aw, aw, honey don't

Well, I love you, baby, and you ought to know
I like the way that you wear your clothes
Everything about you is so doggone sweet
You got that sand all over your feet
so, aw, aw

Well, honey don't
Honey don't
Honey don't
Honey don't
Honey don't
I say you will when you won't
aw, aw, honey don't

I feel fine
Ooo, oo, I say

Well sometimes I love you on a Saturday night
Sunday morning you don't look right
You been out painting the town
Uh huh, baby been stepping around
so, aw, aw

Well, honey don't
I say, honey don't
Honey don't
Honey don't
Honey don't
I say you will when you won't
aw, aw, honey don't

Well, honey don't
Well, honey don't
a little, little, honey don't
I say, you will when you won't
Aw, aw, honey don't