My Baby's Gone

Jim Ed Brown

Written by Hazel Houser

Key of C · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

G7                             C
(My world has ended) my baby's gone

Verse 2

Hold back the rushing minutes
F
Make the wind lie still
G7
Don't let the moonlight shine
                  C
Across the lonely hill
Dry all the raindrops
F
Then hold back the sun
G7                           C
My world has ended my baby's gone

Verse 3

    G7
The milkman whistles softly
      F              C
As he comes up to my door
    G7
The mailman brings a letter
     F             C
Just like he did before

Verse 4

They seem so busy all day long
F
As though there's nothing wrong
           G7
Don't they know the world has ended
          C
My baby's gone

Verse 1

G7                             C
(My world has ended) my baby's gone

Verse 5

G7
I wake up sometimes in the night
F                  C
And realize you're gone
    G7
And then I toss upon my bed
    F               C
And wait for day to come
I try to tell my lonely heart
   F
It must go on alone
       G7
But it cries the world has ended
          C   F
My baby's gone

Verse 6

G7        C
My baby's gone