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Bring My Baby Back

Hovercraft song file · /lyrics/bring-my-baby-back/

01 / The words

Written by Piers "Charlie Pepper" Wildman

Current recording: Oh Yeah

Wildman / Marsden / Downing / Downing · Lyrics: Wildman
From the 1996 sessions · Reconstructed 2026 · Doomed To Live, Side C 

Well I don't want you for money
Don't want you for free
You gotta bring my baby back to me
I don't want no airplane
Don't want to be set free
You gotta bring my baby back to me

Well something happened and it touched my soul
Woe betide before I'm old
But I dunno, I dunno, I dunnoooo
Something happened and it touched my soul
Woe betide before I'm old
But I dunno, I dunno, I dunnoooo

You got me in a worry
You got me in a stew
And there ain't nothing that I can do
I don't want no hurry
I just want some speed
You gotta bring my baby back to me

Well, something happened and it touched my soul
Woe betide before I'm old
But I dunno, I dunno, I dunnoooo
Something happened and it touched my soul
Woe betide before I'm old
But I dunno,
I dunno,
I dunnoooo

Every time I see you
You look the other way
You gotta make my baby go away
Don't want a lot of complainin'
Down at the factory
You gotta bring my baby back to me

Bring my baby back
Bring my baby back
Bring my baby back to me

03 / The dossier

About this song.

Written by
Piers "Charlie Pepper" Wildman
Work
Original

A rockabilly/pub-rock sprint with a sideways gait. Comic romantic panic, speed and factory-life texture give it a distinctly Hovercraft form of vulnerability.

Source & versions

The band’s 1995–96 listening world included The Clash’s Jimmy Jazz — useful context for the feel, without making the song an imitation.