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Song title: My Baby Love Love Loves Me
Original Album: Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love
Other Album: ¿A Qu Venimos Sino A Caer?
Words and Music by Jonathan Richman
Copyright 2004 Rockin' Leprechaun Music
Published by Rockin' Leprechaun Music
Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfretsnet)
NOTES:
On the album, the first chord is Bb, which makes the INTRO and VERSE sequence:
Bb-Dm-Eb-F A friendlier way to play it is A-C#m-D-E, which is also how JR
plays it live
The chords in the INTRO and VERSEs are played according to Guitar Figure 1
INTRO:
One, two, three
[play: Guitar Figure 1] [x2]
Guitar Figure 1
/ strum same chord
A C#m D E
|---5-5//---4///---5-5//--7///---|
|---5-5//---5///---7-7//--9///---|
|---6-6//---6///---7-7//--9///---|
|---7-7//---6///---7-7//--9///---|
|---7-7//---4///---5-5//--7///---|
|---5-5//---4///---5-5//--7///---|
VERSE:
A C#m
My baby love love loves me now
D E
Even more than I pray for
A C#m
My baby love love loves me now
D E
Even more than I pray
BRIDGE:
D A F#m
I pray, I ask but I didn't expect this
D E
My baby love love loves me now
D C#m F#m
Even more than I pray for
D A
Even more than I pray
D A F#m
Well, she loves, she does, but I had to be ready for it
D A F#m
Well, she loves, she does, but I had to be ready
D A F#m
I pray, I ask, and I was blessed
D E
Well, my baby love love loves me now
D C#m F#m
Even more than I pray for
D A
Even more than I pray
[Trumpet SOLO]
[Guitar SOLO]
VERSE:
A C#m
Well, my baby love love loves me now
D E
Even more than I pray for
A C#m
Well, my baby love love loves me now
D E
Even more than I pray
D A F#m
Well, she loves, she hates, she communicates
D E
And, my baby love love loves me now
D C#m F#m
Even more than I pray for
D A
Even more than I pray
D A F#m
Well, she loves, she does, but I had to be ready for it
D A F#m
Well, she loves, she does, but I had to be ready
D A F#m
I pray, I ask, yeah, and I was blessed
D E
Well, my baby love love loves me now
D C#m F#m
Even more than I prayed for
D A
Even more than I prayed
CHORDS: CHORDS: (album version)
A 577655 Bb 688766
C#m 446654 Dm 557765
D 557775 Eb 668886
E 779997 F 88 10 10 10 8
F#m 244222 Gm 355333
One, two, three
Well my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Well my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
I pray
I ask
But I didn't expect this
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
Well she loves
She does
But I had to be ready for it
Well she loves
She does
But I had to be ready
And I pray
I ask
And I was blessed
Well my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
Well my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Well my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
Well she loves
She hates
But she communicates
And my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
Well
She loves
She does
But I had to be ready for it
She loves
She does
But I had to be ready
And I pray
I ask, yeah
And I was blessed
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
One, two, three
Well my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
I pray
I ask
But I didn't expect this
No, my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
Bomp bip
I pray
I ask
And I was blessed
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
I pray
I ask
And I was blessed
Well my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
Bomp bip
I pray
I ask
And I was blessed
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
My baby love love loves me now
???[[Introduces Tommy in French]]
Whoa yeah
Well my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
I pray
I ask
But I didn't expect this, no
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
Well she loves
She does
Right when I was ready for it
Well she loves, she did
She does
Right when I was ready
And I pray
I ask
And I was blessed
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
She loves
She hates
But she communicates
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
Well
She did
She does, she did
Right when I was ready
She does, she did
She does
She loves right when I was ready
And I pray
I ask
And I was blessed
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
Yeah
[My baby loves me even more than I pray for
I did pray too, I pray, I ask, I ask for someone who
When I first met her, I actually talked to her father, I met her actually, her father ran the bar and I asked him for permission before I even talked to her because I was sort of an employee at the bar really, musician's musician, ??? to another employee I asked for her number and he said ok, and actually ???
I said to him, she's really something else, your darling
He says, yeah, when you hit it, when you hit the ball over the net to her she hits it back
I said yeah, that's how I would, that's a good way to describe her
I pray for someone like that
She exceeded my expectations
Exceeded]
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
And I pray
I ask
Yeah but I didn't expect this
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more
And I pray
I ask
And I was blessed
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
Well she loves
She does
But I had to get ready for it
She loves
She does
But I had to be ready
And I pray
I ask, yeah yeah yeah
And I was blessed
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
[Tommy tell them about her]
[That's Tommy on the drums]
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more
And she loves
She hates
But she communicates
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
Well she loves
She does
But I had to be ready for it
She loves
She does
But I had to be ready
And I pray
I ask
And I was blessed
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I prayed for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
And I pray
I ask
And I didn't expect this
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
Well she loves
She does
But I had to be ready for it
I pray
I ask
And I was blessed
Oh
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more
She loves
She hates
But she communicates
And my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
Well she loves
She does
But I had to be ready
She loves
She does
But I had to be ready
I pray
I ask
And I was blessed
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I
Pray
[My baby love love loves me, even more than I pray for]
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
And I pray
I ask
But I didn't expect this
And my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
Well she loves
She does
But I had to be ready for it
She loves
She does
But I had to be ready
And I pray
I ask
And I was blessed
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I
Pray
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more
Well she loves
She hates
But she communicates
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
Well
She loves
She does
But I had to be ready for it
Well she loves
Well she does
And I had to be ready
And I pray
I ask
And I was blessed
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I
Pray
Well my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
And I pray
I ask
But I didn't quite expect this
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
Well she loves
She does
But I had to be ready for it
She loves
She does
But I had to be ready
She loves
She hates
But she communicates
And my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more
I pray
I ask
And I was blessed
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
Well my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more
Well
She loves ???
???
And my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
My baby love love loves me now
She loves
She does
But I had to be ready for it
But I had to be ready
I pray
I ask
And I was blessed
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
And I pray
I ask
But I didn't expect this
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
[Hi everybody, Jonathan Richman here and Tommy Larkins]
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Love love loves me now
More than I pray
[What she like?]
She loves
She hates
But she communicates
My baby love love loves me now
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
My baby love love loves me now
And I pray but it's happening even more
I pray
I ask
And I was blessed
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
And I pray
I ask, all night long
But I didn't expect this
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
[To say goodnight to you
I've got an idea ???
It's our valentines way of saying good night
It goes like this
This is a valentines way of saying good night
Cause it's a valentines message]
Well my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
And I pray
I ask
But I had to be ready for this
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
I had to be ready
I had to be ready cause
What came was even more than I asked for
It was more
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
And she loves
She hates
But she communicates
My baby love
[What's she like?]
She loves
She does
But I had to be ready for it
Sometimes gentle
Sometimes rough
But I have to be ready
And I pray
And I ask
And I was blessed
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
[Good night, everyone]
Well my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I prayed for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
I pray
I ask
But I wasn't ready for this
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
Well my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I prayed for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
And she loves
She hates
But she communicates
And my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
[Your drummer tonight
As every night
Has been Tommy
We're not even through with this one yet]
Well my baby loves loves loves me
Even more than, and I did pray
???
Yeah, prayed for
Yeah I prayed, I asked
And I was blessed
She loves me more than I prayed for
And she loves
She hates
But she communicates
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
[What we have together is celestial ???
See I prayed for it]
Well my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Well my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
And I pray
I ask
But I had to get ready for this
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Well my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
And she loves
She hates
She communicates
And my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
She loves
She does
But I had to be ready for it
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Well my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
???
I was blessed
She love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray for
Well my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
And I pray
Yes, I ask
But I had to be ready for this
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
Tommy
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
And I pray
I ask
???
She loves
She hates
But she communicates
And my baby even loves me more than I prayed for
[Guitar, quiet guitar solo first]
[Medium guitar]
Well my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Loves me
Even more
And I pray
I ask
And I was blessed
My baby love love loves me
Even more than I prayed for
Even more than I prayed for
My baby love love loves me now
And even more than I prayed for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
And I pray
I ask
But I ready for this
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I prayed for
She loves me
Even more than I prayed for
Even more, even more than I prayed for
[She met me more than halfway
???
???]
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I prayed for
She loves me now
Even more than I pray
She loves
She hates
And she communicates
And my baby love love loves me now
Even more than I prayed for
Even more than I pray
Well she loves
She does
But I had to be ready for it
She loves
She does
But I had to be ready
And I pray
I ask
I was blessed
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
Even more than I pray
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
And she loves when she loves
And she hates when she hates
And she communicates
[Tommy, Tommy, ???]
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray for
[Yeah, yeah]
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I prayed for
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I pray
And I pray
I ask
I had to be ready for this
My baby loves me even more than I pray
Well she loves
She does
But I had to be ready for it
Well she loves
She does
But I had to be ready
And she loves
She hates
But she communicates
My baby loves me even more than I pray
[Your drummer tonight, as every night
Has been Tommy, Tommy Larkins]
My baby love love loves me now
Even more than I prayed for
And she loves
She hates
But she communicates
My baby loves me even more than I pray
Wel she loves
She does
But I had to be ready for it
She loves
She does
But I had to be ready
I pray
I asked
And I was blessed
She loves me even more than I prayed for
Even more than I pray
??? In the apartment late at night
I conjured someone like her
I asked to meet someone
Like her
[Well this was great
This place is real intriguing
Like a took a walk about town
The crowd and the city of Lancaster
The room is good too
We'll see you another time maybe
If you like
One last one?
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