My Babe
Bo Diddley Muddy Waters & Little Walter Lyrics

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My baby don't stand no cheatin', my babe
Oh yeah she don't stand no cheatin', my babe
Oh yeah she don't stand no cheatin',
She don't stand none of that midnight creepin'
My babe, true little baby, my babe

My babe, I know she love me, my babe
Oh yes, I know she love me, my babe

Oh yes, I know she love me,
She don't do nothin' but kiss and hug me
My babe, true little baby, my babe

My baby don't stand no cheatin', my babe
Oh no, she don't stand no cheatin', my babe
Oh no, she don't stand no cheatin',
Ev'rything she do she do so pleasin'
My babe, true little baby, my babe

My baby don't stand no foolin', my babe
Oh yeah, she don't stand no foolin', my babe
Oh yeah, she don't stand no foolin',
When she's hot there ain't no coolin'

My babe, true little baby, my babe
She's my baby (true little baby) ...

Overall Meaning

The song "My Babe" by Bo Diddley Muddy Waters Little Walter is a testament to the singer's love for his significant other. The repetitive lyrics emphasize the fact that his babe does not tolerate any kind of cheating, fooling around or midnight creeping. He knows that she loves him because she shows him affection through kissing and hugging. The lyrics also suggest that when she's hot, there's no stopping her, and everything she does is so pleasing to him.

The song can be interpreted in different ways depending on the listener's perspective. Some may see it as a celebration of a faithful relationship, while others may view it as a warning to would-be cheaters. Bo Diddley's unique rhythm and Little Walter's harmonica add another layer of depth to the song, creating a sense of urgency and an upbeat tempo that expresses the singer's passion for his partner.

Line by Line Meaning

My baby don't stand no cheatin', my babe
My beloved partner does not tolerate any form of cheating.

Oh yeah she don't stand no cheatin', my babe
My babe unequivocally rejects the idea of being cheated on.

Oh yeah she don't stand no cheatin',
My partner has zero tolerance for any kind of dishonesty or infidelity.

She don't stand none of that midnight creepin'
My love does not tolerate sneaking around at night or being shady in any way.

My babe, true little baby, my babe
The one I love is a true, genuine, and faithful companion.

My babe, I know she love me, my babe
I am certain that my beloved partner has strong feelings of affection and love for me.

Oh yes, I know she love me, my babe
I am very confident that my darling cherishes and cares for me deeply.

Oh yes, I know she love me,
I have no doubts that my sweetheart loves me with all their heart.

She don't do nothin' but kiss and hug me
My sweetheart merely wants to show physical affection to me with kisses and embraces.

My baby don't stand no cheatin', my babe
My love has a strict rule against any kind of deception or disloyalty.

Oh no, she don't stand no cheatin', my babe
My partner explicitly doesn't accept or tolerate any form of cheating behavior.

Oh no, she don't stand no cheatin',
My sweetheart is adamant in her position that cheating is completely unacceptable.

Ev'rything she do she do so pleasin'
Everything my partner does is done in a way that's pleasing to me.

My babe, true little baby, my babe
My darling is a genuine, loving person who is truly devoted to me.

My baby don't stand no foolin', my babe
My love has a strong opinion that deception is not acceptable in any shape or form.

Oh yeah, she don't stand no foolin', my babe
My sweetheart doesn't tolerate being lied to or deceived, no matter what.

Oh yeah, she don't stand no foolin',
Deceit doesn't have a place in my partner's life, and she won't stand for it.

When she's hot there ain't no coolin'
When my darling partner is excited and enthusiastic about something, her passion is unstoppable.

My babe, true little baby, my babe
My love is an authentic and truly loving partner who cares for me deeply.

She's my baby (true little baby) ...
My partner is my sweet, darling love who is faithful and true to me.

Lyrics © DistroKid, BMG Rights Management
Written by: Willie Dixon

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Comments from YouTube:

@MrDarkShadow64

13y↑1

You guys are so freaked - it doesn't matter who did who's tune. So many artists cover others' music - it is an honor and a compliment to the original artist IMO. Case in point: Tim Hardin's "If I Were a Carpenter". One of the most beautiful songs of our era - but how many would have heard it if no one but Tim had done it? Hell, I didn't know who Tim was until I heard Bobby Darin's version. Now it has been covered by artists from every genre and millions have been able to share and enjoy it.

@1blastman

13y↑3

I grew up in the 50's and was alway drawn to Fats Domino, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Bill Haley. But none of them blew me away as much as Bo. As I grew older, I'd get away from the core of rock and roll, but then someone would cover a Bo song, and BAM! I'd get pulled right back to Bo's sound. So many great bands have covered Chess [and New Orleans] artists over the years - But Bo Diddley is one of the master creators of Rock 'n' Roll. RIP Bo - you were the best!

@Odin029

14y↑2

I don't think Jimi Hendrix ever toured with Muddy's band, but he did tour with Little Richard, Curtis Mayfield (the Impressions), and the Isley Brothers along with some others. As for Elvis, his first release was a year before Chuck's first release. They were contemporaries if anything, and there are a lot of social reasons for Elvis become the biggest RnR star, more than just the music. Black artists like Chuck and Bo Diddley were swimming against the current in 1950's America.

@HenkWessels

14y

Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Little Walter kings of blues

@backwoodsgps

14y

bin to Mars and back and then some already coolest of Dudes are right here on Earth!!!

@msaintpc

15y↑1

Now this is the good stuff minus special effects, just pure, unadultered talent

@JimiHendrixFeyenoord

12y↑1

That opening guitar sound...omg

@gigistrato

15y

GREAT!!!!!! Thanks!

@SuperMartin223

12y↑4

Yeah, it's a great album. A friend had it when I was in HS it helped me to become a life-long blues fan. Rockin' blues for sure. I hope somebody does post the whole album... I don't have a copy and it should be more widely heard. Good drummer!

@AndreaClinton

15y

Doesn't matter what anyone thinks, it was high on the charts in it's time. And you can't compare the sound of the past with today, as time went on, technology did too. That's why when Ray Charles redid some of his songs for the movie, it was soooo much better than his original and he said he enjoyed it so much because of the modern techology and sound systems, etc.

@thestoryplease

13y

Rock and Roll was born from the meeting of black Rhythm and blues and white rock solid country lyrical . Before that there was the Swing by the likes of Duke Ellington, The Dorsey Brothers. Before that there was Dixie Land and Ragtime, before that, African chants and English/Irish reels. All these forms gave something to the other and in the early 50's it came out Rock n Roll.

@coravisser727

9y↑2

I love this yah my babeee.

@andredurao

14y↑1

There's also a banjo in the music, great version thanks for share

@thecruellestmonth

15y↑1

Awesome! Love Little Walter.

@2Kopykatzz

13y

Smokin song..can't listen to it enough!

@Uggybow

15y

Now that's just great. After a rough day it relaxes me so much and eases me soul:).

@idahoMW

15y

Sweet, keep making that noise!

@bohonk123

15y

i remember this song---sooo good

@praethorian1

13y

so old, and so fresh :)

@CptMickey1

11y

One awesome song by some magnificent talent. Thanks for the post & God Bless.

@THEMOJOMANsince1959

13y

@pulmon66 They loved it when he recorded their songs and moreso when he got them more recognized. Elvis loved those guys,,he was a fan. I wish I could find the article that told the story that Elvis saw Bo Diddley do all that moving & grooving he did and Elvis adapted it his way. After all they were both from the very same part of Northern Miss. near Memphis. Bo was born in McComb,Miss.

@PromisseD

15y

I love this song, I just got put on from Cadillac Records but I love it! And the man who played Little Walter in the movie is a fool!

@user-yy1go6jy4s

3:49 Pure Genius

@sortilegus

14y

pure greatness

@cece33372

14y

muddy ,little walter che musica!!!!!!

@tommy2chips

15y

I added this to my blues playlist

@MrDarkShadow64

13y

Another case in point: George Thorogood. My kids LOVED his stuff (as well as some song I never heard called "I Want Candy") but had never heard of Bo Diddley - until I showed them where good ol' George had gotten alot of his stuff. Now they love Bo as well. It wasn't about color - It was all about the quality of the music; which I've tried very hard to raise my kids to appreciate.

@conquest707

14y

never heard this version before. pretty dope.

@starks758

8y↑3

god listens to this every day

@TheWeberlow

13y

pure pure pure.šic:)

@Nojentiporc

13y

This is crazy stuff man! What kind of magic is this that takes control of my body???

@rickeap

13y↑2

this is cool, never heard it before. Elvis also does a great version of it. I love Bo, Elvis etc - there's room for all of them

@pulmon66

13y↑1

Fantastic version but I can´t believe that with all this Elvis discussion, none of the posters has realized that the reason he was the most innovative singer of the blues was his capacity to g beyond what the writer of the song intented. "Talk about my baby,! repeated and sang differently than the rest of the song, in his version, and in every other version, is what makes HIS version the best. And he ends it with a huge shout, at the end, that is no one but HIS. Listen to Presley...

@cousiwa09

15y

cheers mate thanks for the upload!! fantastic!!

@seacow313

15y

whoa - yeah !!! [thank you]

@TomBombadil73

12y

Awesome

@jeanise10

15y

his name is columbus short from stomp the yard he was good and from what i read he played it to a fault the movie was nice i like the way they brought these guys to life and give an ideal of how it started nice very nice indeed

@mudfries

15y↑1

hey! cmon buddy holly should get a mention as well! and eddie cochran! without those guys we would have nothing! I'm with you 100% on everything else!

@Odin029

11y↑1

Muddy had hits before he ever met Willie Dixon. He changed his style and wrote a string of hits for him in the mid to late 50's but Muddy was already the man. If anything he made Willie Dixon.

@austin90015437

11y

ugh!!!!!!! make that 9

@vinoo1946

12y

This is ultimate!!!! What a fantastic upload!!! Regards, Vinoo.

@huetron

15y

that riff at the start is awesome

@QCfinest80

12y

Classic!!!!!!!!!

@despinaluigini7991

10y↑9

STRAORDINARI

@GlenMcBrideglenwez

10y

a great song baby!!!!

@nicom4996

6y↑1

Wow .

@lucashumbert4147

9y↑6

Original composition by Willie Dixon, double bass player at Chess studio.

@markymcclellan

14y

This recording sounds sooo good!

@BaronTurco

12y

They'd have made it anyway as both are top notch artists, but Willie paved the way for them with the great material he wrote.

@austin90015437

13y

the four people that dislike this are big duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmiiiiiiieeeeessssssssssssssssss!

@rchill2

11y

hows that possible, music like this to have a dislike button?

@depper

15y

Not many blues men left... but some specialists are left. Leslie West does an outstanding tribute to Muddy here (cut/paste into search with quotes): "Leslie West's Muddy Waters Tribute - Standing Around Crying"

@shrimpdaddy

15y

Hahahahahahaahahaha! nothing is better than little walter!!!

@Tramm1180

15y

Damm Right .

@il1k3c3r34l

13y

@MdCitizen I certainly wouldn't blame Elvis for getting rich. He found something that people wanted, and he did it better than anybody else. Or at least he was more commercially viable than anybody else. Elvis was an entertainer first and foremost. He wasn't a songwriter, he didn't design album jackets or write the credits. He was paid to perform, and that's what he did. I think Elvis really admired those that came before him, and would gladly give credit where it was due.

@Dorkus89Malorkus

12y

Pure fucking eargasm.

@tinabourgeois2322

10y

Great stuff

@MrWildchildwhite

11y

yaaa saaalaaaam ! perfect blues... i can play guitar a litlle bit but i wish i could learn harmonica !

@MWFrontier

13y

@Actionjax5 That may be so on the first part, but consider this, how cool would it have been if Elvis got together w/ these guys often! The vocals just like this tune are so distinct, I can hear Elvis singing w/ these guys. Damn shame that didnt happen.

@Dutchy1965

14y

I like it......"Hi 5"...Borat

@TheBarrow9040

11y

Little Richard from the move Jimi Hendrix. I love when he said that. right on!

@Bamaboompa

13y↑1

I know it's live and they are just having fun. I just like the original version so much better. It's about the cleanest record I've heard.

@KingHardyon

11y↑1

So sad you don't like that beat. More of a jam than a production. i would have loved to have been their.

@MrRezillo

13y

@WILDAIR Yeah, I love that organ-like guitar sound of his. Another who has that sound was the white guitarist Lonnie Mack.

@MrFinham

11y↑1

Cool

@wistoncap

13y

This shit makes my big toe jump up in my boot!!

@RideMyBMW

14y

Love the gueeetar ! Bo Diddly we want some candy!

@hot4inxs

15y

A truly disgraceful hateful thing to say. shame on you. This is fantastic music from some great human beings.

@MrDarkShadow64

13y

@justmusicandme Bo only used the guitar that he built (by taking the neck and electrics off a Gretsch and placing them on a square body he built) for less than a year. After that he commissioned Gretsch to build him another which he used for about 20 years. After that he had a custom builder in Australia design him a new one. So the one he is using here is NOT a "handmade box guitar". It is a professionally built custom guitar based on his original cannibalized design.

@whtoo7

12y

muitooooooooooo lokoooooooooooo

@THEMOJOMANsince1959

13y

@Odin029 RIGHT ON !!! I was never a big Elvis fan but I know he Loved these guys and he made a lot of them more famous and created a lot of royalty money for their music. Elvis brought their music through THE FRONT DOOR instead of THE BACK DOOR. I was right in the middle of ALL THAT being a DJ for many years and a record promotion man for another many years. Sometimes I wonder W.I.T.H. people get some of the crap they believe. No wonder oBozo got elected.

@48perkins

14y

all of yall people puttin down elvis,everyone is showed something, some showed bo diddley,who is dead and still making millions, elvis that is ,its not bo diddley,so elvis is king forever,bo is great,but dont put elvis down,he has so many songs and his music will always be heard around the world

@RobToronto

12y↑1

"When she's hot there ain't no collin' "

@Odin029

15y↑1

Starts out with Little Walter... he had a collapsed lung during this session. His voice isn't as strong and he's playin his harp w/o an amp. Then Bo Diddley gets a verse in while Walter blows and Muddy adds in a slide lick that I really like Finally Muddy gets in a verse.. I think he sings the rest of the song after this.

@THEMOJOMANsince1959

14y

@MdCitizen Many of those early artist made many ROYALTY CHECKS off Elvis using there songs. I think he did it sometimes as "pay back" just to help them. All those artists loved what Elvis did to further Rock & Roll.

@handmethepiano

15y

...that would be HALF

@grandmachristine42

13y

White kids had familiarity with and access to black music in the 1950's; it was just not mentioned by those people-in-suits. Radio WLAC out of Nashville played righteous music by Bo Diddley, Hank Ballard & Midnighters, (early) Drifters, Little Walter, (early)Ray Charles, Otis Williams, etc etc. As evening progressed and other stations went off the air, people from farther and farther away could tune in. The sponsors were two record shops who mailordered the music. People who served (cont)

@AllBobsAllTheTime

13y↑1

@Odin029 Absolutely - Chuck and Elvis knew a good tune, white or black. No coincidence that on their first single, they each had a "hillbilly tune" on one side and a "negro tune" on the flip side if you were to look at color instead of music.

@AllBobsAllTheTime

13y

@DeutschensindLoser Correct - Elvis really put these guys on the map.

@THEMOJOMANsince1959

13y

@MWFrontier Elvis LOVED THESE GUYS,,JUST LIKE WE DO.

@DONDIVA1969

13y

@jackofalltrades156 - Clapton was legendary in the '60s and '70's way before he started to cover J.J Cale. Bluebreakers, Cream, Derek and the Dominos

@akfinneran

15y

Little Walter then Bo Diddley and then Muddy Waters

@1blastman

12y

@cbtole1 This album is an American Blues Classic - I have it on vinyl, but it's very tough to find on cd or in the old record store bins.

@RandyGblues

13y

@48perkins - I agree. Elvis Costello will definitely stand the test of time, and those who don't know that will never understand! ;-)

@TheDJGrandPa

13y

@THEMOJOMANsince1959 Yeah, the thing is that Little Richard was pissed off in the 50's because he didn't realize how much Boone was helping him, that artists get pissed off is more of an urban legend.

@HeidiMaduhu

10y↑3

Can't find Super Blues on Google Play, where can I find this gem? ...such an upgrade from the original (no offense to Little Walter) x

@daxeboy9

13y

Muddy had some Umph up in his voice!

@MojoHandle

11y↑1

This is the first of two super session albums that Chess produced in the late '60s

@FranzRobertWILD

13y

Awesome version, I suppose the weird guitar sound comes out of bo Diddley guitar... I love this sound so much, hypnotic!!! Like all the true african inspired music. Guess what? Since black american people do white music... that’s cheat! That was great music, back then! Wow!

@arifvicious

11y

Beautiful...even Elvis covered this.

@mwyatt222

13y

hes got a roland gk2 on that cigar box, am i the only one that invisions him playin' groovy synth or vg!

@MrRezillo

13y

Listened to a bunch of versions, and this one is the best, despite all the staged hokum between Muddy, Bo and Walter. Can't tell if there's an organ on this, or it's just Didley's organ-sounding guitar. But this is a great gospel-like approach to this tune. No offense to Walter intended but I greatly prefer this version to Walter's original "swing" rendition. Great stuff!

@jazmerae1

13y

That boy knows how to strum a guitar

@grandmachristine42

13y

(continued) in military in Korea, Okinawa, etc. have told me that even they got WLACby some complicated ship-to-shore network. It was our right! We were white but wee weren't robots. Our parents didn't go throiugh the depression, WW2, etc. to have their kids restricted to listening to Pat Boone.No doubt some Republican youth were sadly deprived, but everone I knew (and many met later from all over the country) was listening to WLAC in cars, on dates, doing homework, falling asleep.

@1blastman

13y↑1

Hey can you post more tunes from this album? It's one of my all time favorite especially "I'M a Man" I love the banter that's going on. - classic Chess Blues

@Bluesman9830

14y

@MdCitizen Amen Bro.

@thecruellestmonth

15y

I don't think anybody's disagreeing! As it was said "the blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll." Shame about commercial rap though.

@paranoidchileno01

13y

Nazareth - Hair of the Dog!! realmente el blues es el padre del rock...

@alexcorcoran7807

10y↑4

Are muddy and bo on guitar?

@dannyjsat

11y

Lennon and McCartney definitely listened to this...

@Beezerjuice

13y

@capedcrusader730 Then they added just a bit more rhythm and came up with Rock a Billy. Then if you take Blues and play it with a faster beat you get Rock and Roll. I doubt if we will ever resolve who did the first Rock song IE: Chuck Berry,Elvis, Bill Haley ETC.

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