MY BABY'S SLEEPING UPSTAIRS
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Susan Werner
Description: Guitar
I go door to door
In this building
I'll use force
If they're unyielding
Tell them, turn their redneck music down
They can take the party elsewhere 'cos
My baby's sleeping upstairs, yeah
I go street to street
Across this city
Mm, no small feat
And it won't be pretty
Tell those cabs to keep their late-night racket down
I can't help if they lose their fares
My baby's sleeping upstairs
'Cos baby when you sleep
With your first curled
You're like a child
In larger size
Baby when you sleep
And your dreams travel sweet and wild
Across your eyes
Oh it's wonderful to witness, mm
Uh-huh
I go down to Hell
To the Devil's dwelling
And I'll tell 'em all
Cos it needs the telling
Tell him keep all of his evil scheming down
The world's plenty full of nightmares
And my baby's sleeping upstairs, mm
Where's Keb'Mo
When you need him
Wish he was here
Oh godspeed him
He'd be playing this solo on down
Mm
My, my baby is sleeping upstairs
'Cos baby when you sleep
With your first curled
You're like a child in larger size
Baby when you sleep
And your dreams travel sweet and wild
Across your eyes
Oh it's wonderful to witness, mm-hmm
Live forever just to get this
And I'll go year to year
Just remembering
January to December-ing
Counting every sweet sweet memory down
But there's nothing ever that compares
Well my baby's sleeping upstairs
[April 2001]