Lyrics to
You Gotta Be My Baby

This version of You Gotta Be My Baby was released by Dolly Parton in 1970.

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Oh you said you were my baby
Now I know that you’re my baby
But it seems to be you got roamin’ eyes
If you wanna be my baby
Then you gotta be my baby
You can’t keep your finger in two different lives
I remember how you pleaded
When my love you said you needed
And I believe without a doubt
So if you wanna be my baby
Then you gotta be my baby
And keep those kissin’ cousins out

Oh you know how when I said I was a’rollin’ low?
I get suspicious and I’m a’gonna tell you so
If you wanna be my baby
Then you gotta be my baby
And be nobody’s baby but mine

Just think about it

Now I heard there was another
So I went and asked your mother
If anybody hung around besides me
She gave me no satisfaction
And now I can’t take no action
But I think I’ll hang around and see

If you wanna be my baby
Then you gotta be my baby
You gotta come to me and tell me so
If you wanna be my baby
Then you gotta be my baby
I’m tired of waitin’ around so let them know

Oh how when I said that I’m a Rollin low
I’m gunna get suspicious and I’m gunna tell you so
If you wanna be my baby
Then you gotta be my baby
And be nobody’s baby but mine

I said and be nobody’s baby but mine

And I mean it!

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Dolly Parton has released many songs over the years besides You Gotta Be My Baby. 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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The lyrics for You Gotta Be My Baby are defined as the words making up the song released by Dolly Parton in 1970. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to You Gotta Be My Baby have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Dolly Parton and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to You Gotta Be My Baby by Dolly Parton if you think through it. 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 You Gotta Be My Baby" means the words set to the music of You Gotta Be My Baby, 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 You Gotta Be My Baby and the lyrics to You Gotta Be My Baby 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 You Gotta Be My Baby, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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