Lyrics to
Don’t Let Your Baby Catch You

This version of Don’T Let Your Baby Catch You was released by Jackson 5 in 1972.

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Don’t let your baby catch you
Don’t let your baby catch you
Don’t let your baby catch you
Fooling around
You just might lose the best thing
That you ever found
Don’t let your baby catch you
Fooling around

Oh, the nights are lonely
Twice as cold
Without my baby’s hand to hold
My happiness is fading away
Just like a thief
I tried to steal a kiss
From another pretty miss
My baby was the price that I paid

Now listen, fellows
(Think twice)
Think twice if you have cheating on your mind
(Watch your step)
Remember
The punishment will fit your crime

Don’t let your baby catch you
Don’t let your baby catch you
Don’t let your baby catch you
Fooling around
You just might lose the best thing
That you ever found
Don’t let your baby catch you
Fooling around

Oh, I hope that now you let me be
Do right not wrong in full indeed
I’m gonna crawl back all the way on my knees
And if that’s no use I’d get to move
And settle down and come to her
Oh, before I even say please
If I get one more chance
My life would be as good as you
And I would not forget the days
The sun would not shine through

Don’t let your baby catch you
Don’t let your baby catch you
Don’t let your baby catch you
Fooling around
Oh, no
Can’t you not, can’t you not, can’t you not, babe

Oh, don’t let her
Oh, your baby catch you
You might lose the best thing
That you ever found

Tell about it, Mike

You’re crazy about your baby
And she’s crazy about you
Just think of what you’d do to her
If she was untrue

Don’t let your baby catch you
Don’t let your baby catch you
Don’t let your baby catch you
All right
Don’t let your baby catch you
Fooling around
You just might lose the best thing
That you ever found
Don’t let your baby catch you
Fooling around

Don’t let it
Don’t let it
Don’t let it
Stop
Stop
Stop

Don’t let your baby catch you
Fooling around
You just might lose the best thing
That you ever found
Don’t let your baby catch you
Fooling around

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About Lyrics and Don’T Let Your Baby Catch You by Jackson 5

The lyrics to Don’T Let Your Baby Catch You are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Jackson 5 used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to Don’T Let Your Baby Catch You have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Jackson 5 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 Don’T Let Your Baby Catch You by Jackson 5. 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 Don’T Let Your Baby Catch You" means the words set to the music of Don’T Let Your Baby Catch You, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jackson 5. 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 Don’T Let Your Baby Catch You and the lyrics to Don’T Let Your Baby Catch You are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jackson 5 who came here looking just for the lyrics to Don’T Let Your Baby Catch You, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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