IF YOU DON'T COME BACK (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller)
[from Gary Walker & The Rain Album No. 1 LP - recorded 1968 - released Japan 1968]
[from Gary Walker & The Rain Album No. 1 CD - recorded 1968 - released Japan 2009]
Well, a noise woke me up this morning
I looked through Venetian blinds
The car was gone and you were gone
And I almost lost my mind
If you don’t come back (If you don’t come back)
Well, if you don’t come back (If you don’t come back)
Well, baby, you can call up the people at this crazy house
And take this crazy man away
I threw myself up against a wall, now
I tore my clothes and I sobbed
I ran out on the street in my stocking feet
Yelling, "Police, I’ve been robbed!"
If you don’t come back (If you don’t come back)
Well, if you don’t come back (If you don’t come back)
Well, baby, you can call up the people at this crazy house
And take this crazy man away
Mrs. Bromley talking about me
To the people way across the street
She says, "I made that boy, now, a bucket of stew
But the poor thing just won’t eat"
If you don’t come back (If you don’t come back)
Well, if you don’t come back (If you don’t come back)
Well, baby, you can call up the people at this crazy house
And take this crazy man away
The doc came up to see me
Inspected with a fine tooth comb
He says, "you ain't sick, but you're gonna die
If you don’t get your baby back home"
If you don’t come back (If you don’t come back)
Well, if you don’t come back (If you don’t come back)
Well, baby, you can call up the people at this crazy house
And take this crazy man away
If you don’t come back (If you don’t come back)
Well, if you don’t come back, child (If you don’t come back)
Well, baby, you can call up the people at this crazy house
And take this crazy man away
[guitar solo]
Well, if you don’t come back (If you don’t come back)
Well, if you don’t come back, child (If you don’t come back)
Well, baby, you can call up the people at this crazy house
And take this crazy man away
[guitar feedback and jamming]
transcription by Tom Brennan
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