A popular song from the year 1930.
Words and music by Roy Turk, Fred E. Ahlert and Harry Richman.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment track:
Lyrics
- I’ve an agreeable baby
Likes everything that I do
Dances most every night
Movies are her delight
I sort of go for them too
But when movies and dances are done
That’s when we have real fun
Chorus
Gee but it’s great after being out late
Walkin’ my baby back home
Arm in arm over meadow and farm
Walkin’ my baby back home
We go along harmonizing a song
Or I’m reciting a poem
Owls go by and they give me the eye
Walkin’ my baby back home
We stop for awhile, she gives me a smile
And snuggles her head to my chest
We start in to pet and that’s when I get
Her talcum all over my vest
After I kind of straighten my tie
She has to borrow my comb
One kiss, then I continue again
Walkin’ my baby back home
- Gee! but it’s great when my baby
Tells me she’ll see me that night
I look up roads to go
That no one else would know
Under the silvery moonlight
Though your hiking on Sunday’s okay
We hike at night, and say
Chorus
Gee but it’s great after being out late
Walkin’ my baby back home
Arm in arm over meadow and farm
Walkin’ my baby back home
We go along harmonizing a song
Or I’m reciting a poem
Owls go by and they give me the eye
Walkin’ my baby back home
She’s afraid of the dark, so I have to park
Outside of her door ’till it’s light
She says if I try to kiss her, she’ll cry
I dry her tears all through the night
Hand in hand to a barbecue stand
Right from her doorway we roam
Eats! and then it’s a pleasure again
Walkin’ my baby back home
Sung here by Fred Feild: