Just a haunting melody with haunting words
Story behind the song
Just a down and out kind of song. I'm really sympathetic to these kind of stories and try to tell them in a slightly different perspective. In this case from a story I saw on 60 minutes about a Dad who was raising 5 or 6 kids on his own and just not keeping up no matter how hard he tried.
His ex wife was out and about and hadn't been home in years.
Lyrics
Come Back Baby
Water's deep, still and cold
Takes my breath but not my load
Water's deep, still and cold
Drives my baby down in her soul
Verse II
Children's crying and my heart sunk low
Don't have the means to feed my own
Children's crying and the sun sinks low
Skied cold grey shows coming of the snow
Chorus
Come Back Baby, oh you've been gone
Since that cock crowed on the harvest morn
Come Back Baby, oh you've been gone
Ease my trouble oh baby please come home
Verse III
Carts gone broke, and the plow don't pull
Dusty Fields don't leave much hope
Carts gone broke, and the plow don't pull
Some cheating rider is coming for my home
Verse IV
I hear she gone to San Antone
Found a new man, to call her own
Way on down round San Antone
Jump a south bound and bring my Baby home