Words & Music:
Arthur Gunter
Oh, baby, baby, baby, baby baby.
Baby, baby baby, b-b-b-b-b-b baby baby, baby.
Baby baby baby
Come back, baby, I wanna play house with you.
Well, you may go to college,
You may go to school.
You may have a pink cadillac,
But don't you be nobody's fool.
Now baby,
Come back, baby, come.
Come back, baby, come.
Come back, baby,
I wanna play house with you.
Now listen and I'll tell you baby
What I'm talking about.
Come on back to me, little girl,
So we can play some house.
Now baby,
Come back, baby, come.
Come back, baby, come.
Come back, baby,
I wanna play house with you.
Oh let's play house, baby.
Now this is one thing, baby
That I want you to know.
Come on back and let's play a little house,
And we can act like we did before.
Well, baby,
Come back, baby, come.
Come back, baby, come.
Come back, baby,
I wanna play house with you.
Yeah.
Now listen to me, baby
Try to understand.
I'd rather see you dead, little girl,
Than to be with another man.
Now baby,
Come back, baby, come.
Come back, baby, come.
Come back, baby, I wanna play house with you.
Oh, baby baby baby.
Baby baby baby b-b-b-b-b-b baby baby baby.
Baby baby baby.
Come back, baby, I wanna play house with you.
Recordingdate: 1955/02 (?), first released on: single (album)
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One of the best Sun tracks, no, even one of Elvis' best tracks ever. He really got it here!
This song is so darn good!!! At first I really hated the remix, but I put it once on my friend's club and people went crazy! :P
One of the best rock 'n' roll performances ever on record.
Here you can witness how innovative Elvis was. His provokative and challenging style became evident. This is a real classical piece of music showing rock 'n' roll in its pristine form. A song you can hear every day and never get tired of!
As "dirty" as you could get in the fifties :-)
I can't believe we're lucky to have this as a filmed performance on Stage Show (the next best thing to that elusive Bill Randle film of 1955). The 1970 rehearsal performance of this song is just for laughs but I think Elvis wanted to move on to different things. For those who criticise his 70's live versions of these early hits, you can always go back to the original recordings and TV footage and Elvis was probably well aware of that.
A classic recording influencing alll who came later including John Lennon. What more can be said? I wish he would have perfomed this in TTWII. The rehearsal showed promise.
A good contender, with That's All Right & Mystery Train, as the best Sun track !
Such a raw way of singing a song was unheard of back then...this shows Elvis's unique creativity !
It just doesn't get any better than this if you're talking Rock'n'Roll
Together with "Mystery Train" my favorite song from The Sun period.."Baby Let's Play House" represents the real, raw, rock and roll Elvis ! Listen to that song a lot...
Fantastic sun track. I remember when I bought Elvis´ golden records and this song came on. It blew my away. That album had all those great songs, Don´t Be Cruel, Heartbreak Hotel, All Shook Up. No song thrilled me as much as this masterpiece, not even close. The Stage Show performance from 1956 is probably one of my favorite live performances of any song
It must be me,I'm not that keen on the early Sun stuff.I prefer the HMV stuff.
I've always loved this song! It's so upbeat, (w the emphasis on "beat"), and El hits ea syllable flawlessly. I've always thought this song HAD to have had some kind of influence on Buddy Holly's "hiccupping" style, but there you have it again....Elvis paved yet another road!!! THEE original!
Along with "Tryin' To Get To You", this is the best track from the Sun days. A hard driving, perfectly delivered piece of rock and roll/blues/country that should be given a lot of credit (along with the more popular "That's All Right, Mama") for launching Elvis onto the scene. This was the first Elvis song to ever hit a national chart as it went all the way to #5 on the U.S. country chart. This would have been a perfect song for him to resurrect for his 1968 TV special, but again it was overlooked.
The Sun stuff was so great and different for its time. Every song had its own identity and left a mark in history. This was probably the best rockabilly one of the bunch and second only to Mystery Train as the best of the Sun recordings.
Absolute purrrrrrrrrrfection!
Brilliant gut bucket R&B.
This has ALWAYS been a favorite of mine, even as a young kid I just thought it was really cool, and my opinion of it has done nothing but improve thru the years!! So cool!
A timeless classic ! IMO the absolute highlight ( together with "Mystery Train" ) of the up-tempo Sun-recordings . Could listen to it x-times in a row without getting bored one single moment !
One of the top 3 tracks he recorded at Sun, giving us the young 'hiccupping' Elvis with attitude, showing what high class rockabilly recordings should sound like.
The intro is classic Elvis, it's not on the original by Arthur Gunter. Sometimes I consider this his best track; it varries from time to time.
This song is a true masterpiece and Elvis' 1950's renditions of it are all true masterpieces too. This song should definitely be much better known than it actually is. I've never skipped it. 5 Stars.
Funny; I've been listening lately to this song and Milkcow Blues Boogie. Can't stop playing his old 1950's stuff on my car CD player. The remastered sound of his Sun Singles is just amazing. I go thru spells listening and as far as I'm concerned this is when he was outstanding.