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Come When I Call You Lyrics
Oh, will you come when I call you?
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past one
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
Oh, will you come when I call you?
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past two
Two's for the love of me and you
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
Oh, will you come when I call you?
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past three
Three's for these warships at sea
Two's for the love of me and you
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
Oh, will you come when I call you?
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past four
Four's for the guns of this war
Three's for these warships at sea
Two's for the love of me and you
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
Oh, will you come when I call you?
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past five
Five's for the warplanes that fly
Four's for the guns of the this war
Three's for these warships at sea
Two's for the love of me and you
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
Oh, will you come when I call you?
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past six
Six for the cities all wrecked
Five for the warplanes that fly
Four's for the guns of this war
Three's for these warships at sea
Two's for the love of me and you
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
Oh, will you come when I call you?
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past seven
Seven for the continents blown up
Six for the cities all wrecked
Five for the warplanes that fly
Four's for the guns of this war
Three's for these warships at sea
Two's for the love of me and you
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
Oh, will you come when I call you?
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past eight
Eight for my eight billion graves
Seven for the continents blown up
Six for the cities all wrecked
Five for the warplanes that fly
Four's for the guns of this war
Three's for these warships at sea
Two's for the love of me and you
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
Oh, will you come when I call you?
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past nine
Nine for the crippled and blind
Eight for my eight billion graves
Seven for the continents blown up
Six for the cities all wrecked
Five for the warplanes that fly
Four's for the guns of this war
Three's for these warships at sea
Two's for the love of me and you
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
Oh, will you come when I call you?
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past ten
Ten for the atom bomb loose again
Nine for the crippled and blind
Eight for my eight billion graves
Seven for the continents blown up
Six for the cities all wrecked
Five for the warplanes that fly
Four's for the guns of this war
Three's for these warships at sea
Two's for the love of me and you
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past one
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past two
Two's for the love of me and you
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past three
Three's for these warships at sea
Two's for the love of me and you
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past four
Four's for the guns of this war
Three's for these warships at sea
Two's for the love of me and you
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past five
Five's for the warplanes that fly
Four's for the guns of the this war
Three's for these warships at sea
Two's for the love of me and you
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past six
Six for the cities all wrecked
Five for the warplanes that fly
Four's for the guns of this war
Three's for these warships at sea
Two's for the love of me and you
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past seven
Seven for the continents blown up
Six for the cities all wrecked
Five for the warplanes that fly
Four's for the guns of this war
Three's for these warships at sea
Two's for the love of me and you
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past eight
Eight for my eight billion graves
Seven for the continents blown up
Six for the cities all wrecked
Five for the warplanes that fly
Four's for the guns of this war
Three's for these warships at sea
Two's for the love of me and you
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past nine
Nine for the crippled and blind
Eight for my eight billion graves
Seven for the continents blown up
Six for the cities all wrecked
Five for the warplanes that fly
Four's for the guns of this war
Three's for these warships at sea
Two's for the love of me and you
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
I'll come when you call me
I'll call you at half past ten
Ten for the atom bomb loose again
Nine for the crippled and blind
Eight for my eight billion graves
Seven for the continents blown up
Six for the cities all wrecked
Five for the warplanes that fly
Four's for the guns of this war
Three's for these warships at sea
Two's for the love of me and you
One's for the pretty little baby that's born, born, born and gone away
Song Info
Submitted by
mellow_harsher On Nov 14, 2017
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This is a beautiful but very disturbing song. It turns out that it, and the other Woody Guthrie lyrics on the Klezmatics\' Wonder Wheel album, weren\'t recorded during Guthrie\'s lifetime, so I guess we\'ll never know what melody Guthrie may have thought of for the song.\n\nIf it sounds familiar, it\'s because it has a familiar structure. It\'s a cumulative song, one where each verse after the first has one more line or phrase than its predecessor. Think "Twelve Days of Christmas", "The Rattling Bog", or for prose, "The House That Jack Built" or "I Knew an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly".\n\n(I have to admit that being a big SCTV fan, I thought it was "Seven for the continents blowed up", but with closer listening I think it\'s "blown".)\n\nThe Klezmatics give these lyrics a sinuous Middle Eastern beat. I dearly wish some belly dance troupe would do a video dancing to it, but global thermonuclear war just isn\'t what people dance to. Like the fifth day of "The Twelve Days of Christmas", the 5:30 line stands out from the rest melodically.