Annie Had A Baby:The Midnighters.
#1 on R&B charts in 1954.

INTRO: E

CHORUS:
E
Annie had a baby, can't work no more.
E7
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
A                               E
Annie had a baby, can't work no more.
      B
Every time she start to working..she has
   A                                E
to stop to walk the baby 'cross the floor.

#1.
E
She had to walk with the baby..instead of me.

Talk to the baby..instead of me.
A
Sing to the baby..instead of me.
E
Cling to the baby..instead of me.
      B                  A
Now I know, I know Annie understood..
E
that's what's happens when the gettin' gets good.

CHORUS:
E
Annie had a baby, can't work no more.
E7
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
A                               E
Annie had a baby, can't work no more.
      B
Every time she start to working..she has
   A                                E
to stop to walk the baby 'cross the floor.

(INTERLUDE:SAX:)

#2.
E
She had to walk with the baby..instead of me.

Talk to the baby..instead of me.
A
Sing to the baby..instead of me.
E
Cling to the baby..instead of me.
      B                  A
Now I know, I know Annie understood..
E
that's what's happens when the gettin' gets good.

CHORUS:
E
Annie had a baby, can't work no more.
E7
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
A                               E
Annie had a baby, can't work no more.
      B
Every time she start to working..she has
   A                                E
to stop to walk the baby 'cross the floor. (Fade.)


A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.