You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry

Skeeter Davis · Skeeter Davis: Studio 102 Essentials [1996]

(Bob Merrill - Terry Shand)



You don't have to be a baby to cry

All you need is for love to go wrong

You don't have to be a baby to cry

Or to lay awake the whole night long.



When you leave me my golden rainbow disappears

Then you leave me a broken heart full of tears

These ain't raindrops in my eyes why should I lie

You don't have to be a baby to cry.



--- Instrumental ---



When you leave me my golden rainbow disappears

Then you leave me a broken heart full of tears

These ain't raindrops in my eyes why should I lie

You don't have to be a baby, b-a-b-y baby

You don't have to be a baby to cry...