Song

Cry Baby Cry

Release date: 22 November 1968

Cry baby cry.
Make your mother sigh.
She's old enough to know better.
The king of Marigold was in the kitchen
Cooking breakfast for the queen.
The queen was in the parlor
Playing piano for the children of the king.

Cry baby cry.
Make your mother sigh.
She's old enough to know better. So cry baby cry.
The king was in the garden
Picking flowers for a friend who came to play.
The queen was in the playroom
Painting pictures for the children's holiday.

Cry baby cry.
Make your mother sigh.
She's old enough to know better. So cry baby cry.
The duchess of Kirkcaldy always smiling
And arriving late for tea.
The duke was having problems
With a message at the local bird and bee.

Cry baby cry.
Make your mother sigh.
She's old enough to know better. So cry baby cry.
At twelve o'clock a meeting round the table
For a s?ance in the dark.
With voices out of nowhere
Put on especially by the children for a lark.

Cry baby cry.
Make your mother sigh.
She's old enough to know better.
So cry baby cry, cry cry cry baby.
Make your mother sigh.
She's old enough to know better.
Cry baby cry, cry cry cry
Make your mother sigh.
She's old enough to know better.
So cry baby cry.

"Cry Baby Cry"
Song by the Beatles from the album The Beatles
Released 22 November 1968
Recorded 16 July 1968
EMI Studios, London
Genre Rock
Length 3:03
Label Apple Records
Writer Lennon-McCartney
Producer George Martin
The Beatles track listing
30 tracks
Side one
  1. "Back in the U.S.S.R."
  2. "Dear Prudence"
  3. "Glass Onion"
  4. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
  5. "Wild Honey Pie"
  6. "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"
  7. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
  8. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun"
Side two
  1. "Martha My Dear"
  2. "I'm So Tired"
  3. "Blackbird"
  4. "Piggies"
  5. "Rocky Raccoon"
  6. "Don't Pass Me By"
  7. "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?"
  8. "I Will"
  9. "Julia"
Side three
  1. "Birthday"
  2. "Yer Blues"
  3. "Mother Nature's Son"
  4. "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey"
  5. "Sexy Sadie"
  6. "Helter Skelter"
  7. "Long, Long, Long"
Side four
  1. "Revolution 1"
  2. "Honey Pie"
  3. "Savoy Truffle"
  4. "Cry Baby Cry"
  5. "Revolution 9"
  6. "Good Night"

"Cry Baby Cry" is a song by the Beatles, written by John Lennon, from their 1968 album The Beatles. The outro of the song is a short segment referred to as "Can You Take Me Back", written by Paul McCartney.

©1968 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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