GOT MY BABY
Music and words by Jenn Lindsay

Hey, I got my baby
And she is the only baby I will ever need
She's got the longest neck you ever seen
And six lovely steel strings
Some nights I'm up till four holding her in my arms
We make sounds together deep in the dark
My baby makes me stronger and she sings me back to life
This morning I did three whole pull-ups,
bringing my lifetime grand total to
five

Now I'm a muscle-man a one-girl-band,
a one-night stand-up, boom boom bam
The only baby I need stays with me all night

Some nights I reach for my baby and she don't reach back
so good She lie in bed all hard and cold
almost like she made of wood
Baby don't reach back
so good it's almost like she made of wood
I used to have a babe who would reach back
Some nights I was up till four
holding those hands in my hands
It's nice when your baby has hands
When your baby has arms, and has to be fed
I admit it's much much better than holding hands in your head
Maybe I'll find a tawny brute, bring him to my flowerbed
But baby that gets old you know,
a hose is a hose is a hose you know,
I'll take six strings instead

Once you fall in love your whole life gets worse
Your words get simple and they get absurd
Who wants to get misty when someone else is near
Who wants to be called things like pookie and dear
Who wants to run their fingers through someone else's hair
I do
I do
It would be nice if my baby had hair
I like hair
I do
I do

But I'm a troubadour, I'm a lone star, a cowgirl poet
I buy my own beer at the bar, you know it
My heart is a beautiful tower and I am the beautiful guard
My friend said there's another word for what you are:
You're single! You're single!
No euphemize, no pretty prize, the word for that is single
Not room to think or reason to drink, you're S-I-N-G single
And everyone is in love except you
Never knew that baby, did you?

Hey, I got my baby
And she is the only baby I will ever need
She's got the longest neck you ever seen
And six lovely steel strings
Baby don't reach back so good,
almost like she made of wood
Baby don't reach back,
I don't give a goddamn bout that Cuz she's got the only thing I will ever need
Six lovely steel strings