TABCry Baby CryThe BeatlesEasy ChordsLyrics
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Cry By Cry Video
TABCry Baby Cry
[intro]
G Am
Cry baby cry
F G
Make your mother sigh
Em7 A7 F
She's old enough to know better
[Verse]
Em Em(maj7) Em7
The king of Marigold was in the kitchen
Em6 C7 G
Cooking breakfast for the queen
Em7 Em(maj7)
The queen was in the parlor
Em7 C7
Playing piano for the children of the king
[Chorus]
G Am
Cry baby cry
F G
Make your mother sigh
Em7 A7
She's old enough to know better
F G
So cry baby cry
[Verse]
Em Em(maj7)
The king was in the garden
Em7 A7 F
Picking flowers for a friend who came to play
E7 Em(maj7)
The queen was in the playroom
Em7 C7
Painting pictures for the children's holiday
[Chorus]
G Am
Cry baby cry
F G
Make your mother sigh
Em7 A7
She's old enough to know better
F G
So cry baby cry
[Verse]
Em Em(maj7) Em7
The duchess of Kircaldy always smiling
Em6 C7 G
And arriving late for tea
Em Em(maj7)
The duke was having problems
Em7 Em6 C7
With a message at the local bird and bee
[Chorus]
G Am
Cry baby cry
F G
Make your mother sigh
Em7 A7
She's old enough to know better
F G
So cry baby cry
[Verse]
Em Em(maj7) Em7
At twelve o'clock a meeting round the table
Em6 C7 G
For a seance in the dark
Em Em(maj7)
With voices out of nowhere
Em7 Em6 C7 G
Put on specially by the children for a lark
[Outtro]
G Am
Cry baby cry
F G
Make your mother sigh
Em7 A7
She's old enough to know better
F G
So cry baby cry cry cry cry baby
F G
Make your mother sigh
Em7 A7
She's old enough to know better
F G
Cry baby cry
F G
Cry cry cry
F G
Make your mother sigh
Em7 A7
She's old enough to know better
F G
So cry baby cry
Suggested alternative chord fingerings to help the song’s flow.
Em(maj7) Em6 Em7 A7 C7
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John Unplugged Video
The Beatles Cry Baby Cry Rare
The Story Behind the Song
The Beatles completed the recording of Cry Baby Cry during this day's two sessions, and also began work on Helter Skelter.
The first session began at 2.30pm and lasted seven hours. Just one track was spare on the four-track tape, so The Beatles filled it with a number of simultaneous recordings. John Lennon redid his lead vocals in the verses, with harmonies by Paul McCartney in places; George Martin played a descending harmonium part in the introduction; Ringo Starr shook a tambourine; and George Harrison added electric guitar and tea party effects were made during the "Duchess of Kirkcaldy" verse.
Cry Baby Cry was transferred to eight-track tape on 17 September 1968, but no further music was added.
The day's second session began at 10.30pm and ended at 3.30am. The Beatles recorded three takes of Helter Skelter, which were essentially rehearsals; they lasted 10'40", 12'35" and 27'11" respectively.
The last was the longest recording in the group's career. An edited mix of take two, meanwhile, was released on 1996's Anthology 3.
I made it clear to George Martin when we doing Anthology 3, that the fans are desperate to hear this and I urged him to listen to it, because I don't think initially he was going to do so. He listened to it, and he said: "Well, why is this important?" I said forget the quality of the sound, or forget the fact that it's not quite in tune or whatever, what a producer would normally be looking for, just respect the fact please that it is hailed as the most important outtake of them all, and the fans will go crazy if you don't include this on the Anthology.
So he took all that on board, which George always does, and he's very good at that sort of thing, he listens. But, the next time I went in there, they said: "Here it is," and it was like five minutes, and they'd trimmed it right down. And in fact they didn't use the 27-minute one, there was another one as well that was 12 minutes, which they used, and they'd trimmed it down to five minutes. They said: "This is all people will stand, they won't stand the whole thing." And I said: "Well, I think a lot of them will actually..."
Mark Lewisohn
The takes were recorded over two rehearsal reels of Cry Baby Cry made on 15 July. At this stage Helter Skelter was a blues-based jam, although most of the lyrics and chord changes were in place.
They recorded the long versions of Helter Skelter with live tape echo. Echo would normally be added at remix stage otherwise it can't be altered, but this time they wanted it live. One of the versions developed into a jam which went into and then back out of a somewhat bizarre version of Blue Moon. The problem was, although we were recording them at 15 ips [inches per second] - which meant that we'd get roughly half an hour of time on the tape - the machine we were running for the tape echo was going at 30 ips, in other words 15 minutes... The Beatles were jamming away, completely oblivious to the world and we didn't know what to do because they all had foldback in their headphones so that they could hear the echo. We knew that if we stopped it they would notice.
In the end we decided that the best thing to do was stop the tape echo machine and rewind it. So at one point the echo suddenly stopped and you could hear 'bllllrrrrippppp' as it was spooled back. This prompted Paul to put in some kind of clever vocal improvisation based around the chattering sound!
Brian Gibson, technical engineer
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, Mark Lewisohn
These recordings featured two electric guitars, bass and drums all on the same track, and McCartney's vocals on another. It is possible that Lennon played the bass in these recordings.
Following this session, The Beatles didn't return to Helter Skelter until 9 September 1968.
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