Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones

Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones – Baby Please Don’t Go – Live At Checkerboard Lounge

Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981 is a concert video and live album by American blues musician Muddy Waters and members of the English rock band the Rolling Stones. It was recorded on 22 November 1981 by David Hewitt on the Record Plant Black Truck, mixed by Bob Clearmountain, and released on 10 July 2012.

One of the most covered songs of all time, Baby, Please Don’t Go” is a traditional blues song that was popularized by Delta blues musician Big Joe Williams in 1935.

Lyrics:

Baby, please don’t go
Baby, please don’t go
Baby, please don’t go
Down to New Orleans, you know I love you so

Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
I get you way’d out here, and let you walk alone

Turn your lamp down low
Turn your lamp down low
Turn your lamp down low
I beg you all night long, baby, please don’t go

You brought me way down here
You brought me way down here
You brought me way down here
‘Bout to Rolling Forks, you treat me like a dog

Baby, please don’t go
Baby, please don’t go
Baby, please don’t go
Back to New Orleans, I beg you all night long

Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
I get you way’d out here, and let you walk alone

You know your man done gone
You know your man done gone
You know your man done gone
To the county farm, with all the shackles on