My Baby's Gone

Jim Ed Brown and the Browns · The Three Bells [Bear Family] [1993]

(Hazel Houser)



(My world has ended,) my baby's gone.



Hold back the rushing minutes, make the wind lie still

Don't let the moonlight shine across the lonely hill

Dry all the raindrops then hold back the sun

My world has ended, my baby's gone.



The milkman whistles softly as he comes up to my door

The mailman brings a letter just like he did before

They seem so busy all day long as though there's nothing wrong

Don't they know the world has ended, my baby's gone.



Hold back the rushing minutes, make the wind lie still

Don't let the moonlight shine across the lonely hill

Dry all the raindrops then hold back the sun

My world has ended, my baby's gone.



I wake up sometimes in the night and realize she's gone

And lay my clothes upon my bed and wait for days to come

I tried to tell my lonely heart it must go on alone

But it cries the world has ended, my baby's gone.



My baby's gone...