[00:00.00]Brown Baby - Ethel Waters' Jazz Masters
[00:09.53]Hello folks at last I'm back again
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[00:16.62]I'm going back to a Tennessee town
[00:20.54]Back on a visit to my coffee brown
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[00:24.40]Way up the river
[00:26.09]We will row
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[00:27.82]Up and down the levee
[00:29.98]We will go
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[00:31.88]I've got some baby waiting for me
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[00:36.00]My brown baby in old Tennessee
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[00:39.75]When he starts to loving
[00:41.87]That's when he finds
[00:43.77]I'm just crazy about that baby of mine
[00:47.31]Do you suppose I ever will know
[00:52.78]Brown baby
[00:55.39]What he has got
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[00:57.54]That makes me love him so
[01:00.58]Brown baby
[01:03.44]What about his smile
[01:05.17]That almost gets me wild
[01:07.22]He makes a grown-up woman act just like a child
[01:11.00]Brown baby
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[01:13.69]Here in old Tennessee
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[01:50.78]Now he don't use no poor row
[01:56.16]No farmer's skin's so tan
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[02:00.61]But what he's got is all his own
[02:04.62]And he's only got the best
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[02:09.03]His eyes are just like midnight
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[02:13.08]Best-looking man in town
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[02:16.26]And I'll tell you why I'm crazy
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[02:19.29]About my country brown
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[02:24.09]But do you suppose I ever will know
[02:30.36]Brown baby
[02:33.17]What he has got
[02:34.89]That makes me love him so
[02:38.27]Oh brown baby
[02:41.73]What about his smile
[02:43.63]That almost gets me wild
[02:45.65]He makes a grown-up woman act just like a child
[02:49.85]Brown baby baby
[02:52.04]From old Tennessee