Elvis Songs: Baby, Let's Play House

Baby, Let's Play House

Written by: Arthur Gunter

Recorded: February 5, 1955, Sun Studio, Memphis

Single: w/ "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone", Sun 217, April 1, 1955
Reissued on RCA Victor (RCA 47-6383) in November 1955
Also re-released as Gold Standard Series, 447-0604, March 1959

Highest U.S. Charts Position:
#10 on Billboard's Country Best-Seller chart
#5 on Country Disc Jockey chart
(This was the first Elvis song ever to chart nationally!)

1st LP release: A Date With Elvis - September 1959

To me, "Baby Let's Play House" encapsulates everything that is Rockabilly! Elvis' repetitions of the word "baby" that open and close this classic are a mandatory assignment, you just gotta hear it! No, I mean now... stop reading and download it!

I'll definitely write some more about it, so stay tuned! Meanwhile, dig the links an' stuff!

'Baby Let's Play House' is a medium-fast rock number enlivened by raw and gutsy guitar work. Presley's repetitions of "Baby, baby, baby" are very exciting, and probably influenced Gene Vincent.

Robert Matthew-Walker, Elvis Presley - A Study In Music, 1979

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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.