And The Baby Never Cries

Words and Music by Harry Chapin




        D                 F#m
Well I sung out one more evening

         Bm               F#m
Yes I'm rung out feeling beat

        G               A
And I walk out on the door once more

       Bm   F#m       Bm - F#m - Bm - F#m - Bm - F#m
To an empty city street


    D               F#m
A good guitar will serve you well

             Bm            F#m
When you're livin' in the light

           G          A
But it's never gonna warm you

         Bm  F#m     Bm    F#m - Bm - F#m - Bm - F#m
In the middle of the night

F             C              G      D   F#m - A
So I come and go with her in whispers

Em         Cmaj7/G               F#m
Each and everytime she says she dies

F             C            G      D   F#m - A
When she is reborn again I kiss her

        F#m  Bm      Em      D - Dsus - D - Dsus...
And the baby               never cries


D                 F#m
She works in the day time

               Bm          F#m
She leaves her baby with a friend

    G             A
And I sing every evenin'

       Bm      F#m       Bm  F#m - Bm - F#m - Bm - F#m
I only see her now and then

D                F#m
I come to her at midnight

           Bm                F#m
When 'bout half the world's asleep

         G              A
And she puts me back together

       Bm      F#m       Bm  F#m - Bm - F#m - Bm - F#m
In the hours before I leave

F             C              G       D  F#m - A
So I come and go with her in whispers

Em         Cmaj7/G               F#m
Each and everytime she says she dies

F             c            G      D  F#m - A
When she is reborn again I kiss her

        F#m  Bm      Em      D - Dsus - D - Dsus...
And the baby               never cries


Notes (not chords):
G - A - G - F# - G - F# - E - F# - E - D - E - F# (4x's)

      D                  F#m
Her apartment's down on Perry Street

              Bm                F#m
And there's a tree in her back yard

        G               A
And it rubs the bedroom window

         Bm      F#m       Bm - F#m - Bm - F#m - Bm - F#m
When the wind is blowing hard


D                F#m
Her old man had left her

        Bm                F#m
He just took off for the coast

        G                 A
And I caught her on the rebound

       Bm     F#m      Bm  F#m - Dm - F#m - Dm - F#m
When I needed her the most

Bm  (cello solo)



F             C              G      D  F#m - A
So I come and go with her in whispers

Em         Cmaj7/G                     F#m
Each and everytime she says she dies

F            C             G      D  F#m - A
When she is reborn again I kiss her

        F#m Bm    Em           Bm - F#m - Bm - F#m... Bm
And the baby            never cries



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