Walkin` My Baby Back Home

<br>-Artist: Nat King Cole<br>-peak Billboard position #8 in 1952<br>-Words and Music by Roy Turk and Fred Ahlert in 1930<br>-charted in 1931 by Nick Lucas (#8), Ted Weems (also #8), the Charleston<br>-Chasers (#15), and Lee Morse (#18).<br>-also charted in 1952 by Johnnie Ray at # 4<br>-title song from the 1953 film starring Donald O`Connor, Janet Leigh, Buddy <br>-Hackett, and Scatman Crothers<br><br><br>Gee, it`s great after bein` out late<br>Walkin` my baby back home<br>Arm in arm over meadow and farm<br>Walkin` my baby back home<br><br>We go `long harmonizing a song<br>Or I`m recitin` a poem<br>Owls go by and they give me the eye<br>Walkin` my baby back home<br><br>We stop for a while, she gives me a smile<br>And snuggles her head on my chest<br>We start in to pet and that`s when I get<br>Her talcum all over my vest<br><br>After I kinda straighten my tie<br>She has to borrow my comb<br>Once kiss then I continue again<br>Walkin` my baby back home<br><br>&lt;instrumental interlude&gt;<br><br>She`s `fraid of the dark so I have to park<br>Outside of her door till it`s light<br>She says if I try to kiss her she`ll cry<br>I dry her tears all through the night<br><br>Hand in hand to a barbecue stand<br>Right from her doorway we roam<br>Eats and then it`s a pleasure again<br>Walkin` my baby<br>Talkin` my baby<br>Lovin` my baby<br>I don`t mean maybe<br>Walkin` my baby back home