Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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(Like She Babied You)
A tender, loving, fox trot ballad, 1927
Words by Andrew Donnelly and Dolly Morse
Music by Joe Burke

Sung by Laurence Rubenstein
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne

Get the sheet music and accompaniment here:
sheetmusicsinger.com/baby-your-mother

Lyrics

1. When you were a baby
Whose two arms held you tight?
Rocked you to sleep every night?
Those two arms are empty now
She’s grown old and gray
Why don’t you go home today? And

CHORUS
Baby your mother like she babied you
Back in your baby days
Maybe your mother is lonesome and blue
Waiting for you and needing you too
The debt of love you owe her
You can never pay
Go take her in your arms
And kiss her tears away
And baby your mother like she babied you
Back in your baby days

2. Every evening mother hums a sweet lullabye
And in her heart there’s a sigh
For her memories are filled
With dear days that were
You’re still a baby to her, so

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