Lyrics to
Baby Come Out Tonight

This version of Baby Come Out Tonight was released by Dolly Parton in 1977.

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Baby, won’t you come out tonight
Just come up the hill
‘Cause there’s a full moon on the risin’
Hey baby, can’t you steal away
You know I really need to see you tonight

I just got word you was packin’ it in
What’s the matter
This old town got you crazy again
I can see the sad look in your eyes
But I don’t know how to say goodbye

And tommorrow, you’re gonna have your day
Take your wife and you’re gonna run away
Baby while I’m wailin’
You’ll be sailin’ like a hog across the bay singin’

Ooo, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Mmmmm, baby, won’t you come out tonight

Oh baby, won’t you come out tonight
We’ll run up the hill and we’ll dance in the moonlight
Let me gaze into your eyes ’til we both go blind
Oh baby, can I see you tonight

I’m just tryin’ to find a way to make it last
Good friends, they seem to slip away so fast
An’ I know we’re both headed down seperate tracks
An’ when ya’ go, baby don’t look back

There won’t be no more sleepin’ over on a Tuesday night
No more runnin’ to the races for a dark horse at midnight
No more dancin’ after hours
Singin’ in the showers
Or clingin’ to each other in the soft mornin’ light singin’

Ooo, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Oh baby, won’t ya’ come out tonight
Oh baby, won’t ya’ come out tonight

I’ll meet ya’ on the corner
And you’ll be there at midnight
Oh baby, can you steal away
You know I really want to see ya’ tonight

Ooo baby, can you come out tonight
We’ll run up the hill and dance again in the moonlight
Oh baby, can you steal away
I really wanna see you tonight

Oh baby, won’t ya’ come out tonight
Come up the hill
There’s a full moon on the rise
Oh baby, can ya’ steal away
Baby, won’t ya’ come out tonight
Oooooo…

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Dolly Parton has released many songs over the years besides Baby Come Out Tonight. Dolly Parton released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Hello, I'm Dolly, Just Because I'm A Woman, My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy, In The Good Old Days, As Long As I Love, The Fairest Of Them All, A Real Live Dolly, Coat Of Many Colors, The Golden Streets Of Glory, Joshua, Touch Your Woman, My Favorite Songwriter: Porter Wagoner, Bubbling Over, My Tennessee Mountain Home, Love Is Like A Butterfly, Jolene, Dolly: The Seeker / We Used To, The Bargain Store, All I Can Do, New Harvest... First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, Great Balls Of Fire, 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly, Heartbreak Express, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Burlap & Satin, Rhinestone, The Great Pretender, Real Love, Rainbow, White Limozeen, Home For Christmas, Eagle When She Flies, Straight Talk, Slow Dancing With The Moon, Heartsongs: Live From Home, Something Special, Treasures, Hungry Again, The Grass Is Blue, Precious Memories, Little Sparrow, Halos & Horns, For God And Country, and Those Were The Days. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Dolly Parton.

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About Lyrics and Baby Come Out Tonight by Dolly Parton

The lyrics to Baby Come Out Tonight are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Dolly Parton used when the song was created in 1977. The lyrics to Baby Come Out Tonight have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Dolly Parton and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Baby Come Out Tonight by Dolly Parton. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Baby Come Out Tonight" means the words set to the music of Baby Come Out Tonight, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Dolly Parton. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Baby Come Out Tonight and the lyrics to Baby Come Out Tonight are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Dolly Parton who came here looking just for the lyrics to Baby Come Out Tonight, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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