Reed, Jimmy - Ain't That Lovin' You Baby Lyrics






Know I love ya babe?
Know I love ya babe?
Know I love ya babe?
But you don't even know my name

Let me tell ya baby
I'll tell ya what I would do
I would rob, steal, kill somebody
Just ta get back home ta you

Ain't that lovin' ya, baby?
Ain't that lovin' ya, babe?
Ain't that lovin' ya, babe?
But you don't even know my name

Let me tell ya baby
Don't sound like it's true
They could drop me in the ocean
I'd swim to the bank
An' crawl home ta you

Ain't that lovin' ya baby?
Ain't that lovin' ya babe?
Ain't that lovin' ya baby?
But you don't even know my name

They may kill me baby, bury me like they do
My body might lie but my spirit gonna rise
And come home to you

Ain't that lovin' ya baby?
Ain't that lovin' ya babe?
Ain't that lovin' ya baby?
But you don't even know my name





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  1. D.... W....

    Yess Sir.... I love me some... Jimmy Reed.... ❗❗❗❗❗thanks sweetie ♥♥♥♥♥

  2. 1.... ....

    was listening to this 60 yrs ago

    1.... ....

    make that 57

  3. S.... L....

    But you don't even know my name

  4. M.... W....

    The love of my life when I was 17 years old introduced me to Jimmy Reed music. Hearing Jimmy Reed makes me so lonesome for my guy named Jim, a Sgt in the Marines.

  5. J.... C....

    That harmonica starting at 1:58 knocks me out!

  6. B.... ....

    Brought here by the Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Adorable dancing between a mother and daughter. Trivia fact: in the book or I should say books that inspired the film, the women did not listen to this type of music but rather almost always to Barbra Streisand, but the director or producer felt as though the music had to have some joy and happiness to it because the subject matter of the film was so heavy..great decision. The music of the film was chosen by T Bone Burnett.

  7. J.... R....

    Black people got some extra from God but we can learn from there struggles

  8. S.... G....

    Simply, sublime.

  9. b.... ....

    My big sisters would take me to see him at our Regal Theater. Man. He could tear it up. My favorite. Oh tge British ripped all this off with attribution. This is my music. 😂😂

  10. G.... W....

    When I was a kid, we didn't have a whole lot of money, and I got a record player at a rummage sale, for a dollar. So, my mom gave me some records, one of them being "Jimmy Reed, The Legend, The Man", featuring this song.

  11. M.... N....

    Ain't that loving you baby, sho nuff!! Get down with it!! 2019

  12. p.... ....

    Guitar legend Albert King , playing drums... wiki- "he [King] briefly played drums for Jimmy Reed's band and on several of Reed's early recordings."
    brought me here

  13. e.... ....

    Elvis Presley brought me here.

  14. K.... W....

    So many people here found JR from Keith Richards but Neil Young sent me to JR. I must be slow on the uptake.

  15. J.... S....

    Ain't That Lovin' You Baby

    Jimmy Reed

    Know I love ya babe?
    Know I love ya babe?
    Know I love ya babe?
    But you don't even know my name

    Let me tell ya baby
    I'll tell ya what I would do
    I would rob, steal, kill somebody
    Just ta get back home ta you

    Ain't that lovin' ya, baby?
    Ain't that lovin' ya, babe?
    Ain't that lovin' ya, babe?
    But you don't even know my name

    Let me tell ya baby
    Don't sound like it's true
    They could drop me in the ocean
    I'd swim to the bank
    An' crawl home ta you

    Ain't that lovin' ya baby?
    Ain't that lovin' ya babe?
    Ain't that lovin' ya baby?
    But you don't even know my name

    They may kill me baby, bury me like they do
    My body might lie but my spirit gonna rise
    And come home to you

    Ain't that lovin' ya baby?
    Ain't that lovin' ya babe?
    Ain't that lovin' ya baby?
    But you don't even know my name

  16. B.... K....

    Jimmy has always been my favorite and always will be❤️

  17. J.... ....

    Christ I'd sell my soul to be able to play the harp has as dece as he does, that sound is pure music

  18. D.... M....

    #ugottalisten2b4udie

  19. A.... M....

    This guy is unbelievable

  20. B.... A....

    This was his biggest hit before "Baby What You Want Me To Do".
    The sentence that begins "They may kill me baby......" has never been clear to me. Usually I find Jimmy's lyrics easy to pick out. But in that part of this tune I have never been quite sure of the words. This is frustrating because I have been listening to this at least once a year since I bought the 45 when it came out in the mid 1950's. The problem is compounded by the fact that many websites that claim to know the lyrics used on old blues recordings are wildly, and often laughably, inaccurate.
    Does anybody here actually know?

  21. j.... p....

    I wore this album out learning to play the drums. did ok, too. made me a good living. 4-14-2018 jp

  22. N.... P....

    fuck yeah!

  23. s.... m....

    Peter Green fired my slack arse here :)

  24. T.... M....

    Papa John Creach, MS John Hurt, Robert Johnson AND THIS GUY!!!

  25. B.... G....

    big bad Jimmy Reed the foundation of Blues

  26. a.... a....

    Esta buena canción la canto JIMMY REED  en el año 1956

  27. R.... H....

    Jimmy Reed gotta listen to the Harmonica, guitar & his lyrics.

  28. j.... ....

    PAT TRAVERS swung me here

  29. G.... M....

    I, Hate'd This Song, As A Child....Don't Things Chang.....

  30. S.... S....

    Love link ways version as well as jimmy reeds. Brilliant track.

  31. F.... S....

    Rhythm and Blues is good for the soul.

  32. A.... B....

    Stevie Ray Vaughan sent me here... Listened to him on "In Step". He refers to his youth there, so I thought I'd better have a look since I am young too :)
    I don't understand all these references to Keith Richards and all the others. Can anybody explain please?

  33. B.... K....

    I love you Jimmy❤️❤️

  34. m.... ....

    Vernel Fournier, who is better known in Jazz circles as the drummer for Ahmad Jamal, is the drummer on this recording.

  35. g.... ....

    All his tunes were staples on our song list as they came out. Wealth of material...all great. Many Texas bar bands grew up on them as we did....Long time before the British invasion...

  36. S.... P....

    I would Rob steal kill somebody just to get back home to you

  37. H.... ....

    Billy Gibbons sent me.

    H.... ....

    Heavyisaheavy same here

    H.... ....

    Me too. Peace !

    H.... ....

    Heavyisaheavy 888

    H.... ....

    Heavyisaheavy u

  38. M.... K....

    love me do?

  39. B.... F....

    yeah, yeah...that boy keith, he touches lots 'o' folks.

  40. M.... M....

    Happy birthday to my beautiful mama of mine!! For she is a music lover and got me listening to one of best blues artist when I was just a babe!! Love me some Jimmy Reed!!

  41. t.... ....

    me too Keith told me to come here.

  42. N.... ....

    Ya ya !

  43. J.... H....

    Heard Jimmy at Clearlake in Memphis about 1963. Tickets were $3. He rocked. Audience was entirely white, which didn't seem odd at the time.

    J.... H....

    Were Blacks allowed in? Or in the same section? That was before the civil rights act so it wasn't uncommon.

    J.... H....

    No, no way Blacks were allowed in to Clearlake. The memory of those times cause me great shame. I should have seen the injustice..

    J.... H....

    I saw Jimmy at a cabaret in Pittsburgh organized by Porky Chedwick in the late 50's. The audience was both black and white, but mostly white as I recall. I saw him with touring rock and roll shows in the 50's as well. I have loved hias records since the first time I heard him on the radio. That was on WLAC Nashville late at night. I brought a lot of blues records into Porky, and he dug them. He started playing a lot of blues. Sometimes he would use the phrase "going on a blues cruise".

    J.... H....

    @Bob Aldo thanks for sharing

  44. P.... ....

    Good old Keith brought me here

  45. M.... M....

    Merci Keith!

  46. G.... M....

    Not now, Keith! Fer crissakes, can't you see I'm leaving a review here? You go back and play with Mick until I'm done, ok??

  47. S.... F....

    WoW this cat don't have a bad tune . . .

  48. S.... ....

    Love me do?

  49. c.... t....

    Having been raised on the blues I could probably take many on a journey.

  50. D.... B....

    Keith Richards pointed me this way

    D.... B....

    Yep. Me too.

  51. J.... S....

    Keith Richards told me about him

    J.... S....

    You should have known from before.

    J.... S....

    Before what

    J.... S....

    @Jeff S before keith told you.

  52. D.... R....

    Keith Richards brought me here

  53. S.... J....

    Yess Jimmy Reed

  54. C.... B....

    Cruisin in the 51 chevy

  55. P.... O....

    Ronnie Wood brought me here.

  56. D.... P....

    Mary Kay Wood, thanks!

  57. m.... h....

    This man is the main influence of the British Blues Boom Boom Boom Boom and I love his art.That slight off key sound is the sound of humanity.He's got me dizzy. 

    m.... h....

    Him, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley

    m.... h....

    And Elmore James and Howlin’ Wolf...

  58. D.... P....

    JIMMY REED...STILL THE MAN OF BLUES..YOU GOT ME DIZZY THATS MY SONG

  59. k.... ....

    A masterpiece !

  60. s.... ....

    can't live without listening to the blues

    s.... ....

    Apparently The Clash and The Pogues as well, good taste 

    s.... ....

    @salamattamalas +1== who would want to?

  61. c.... w....

    Did anybody else hear love me do?

    c.... w....

    cornell waters
    I was 16 in '56, Heard 'em all.
    But that was a Beatles song, not blues

    c.... w....

    Larry Tischler bullshit. I'm 68 years old, and know better.

    c.... w....

    So was I, and I heard 'em, too, but the Beatles (and a whole lot of others) were inspired by Jimmy.

  62. c.... w....

    Jimmy Reed , Vee-Jay is born, mama knows best, one of a kind, beginning of the end, ICON!!!1

  63. M.... M....

    just hearing jimmy again     its been a long time.

  64. P.... A....

    one of my faves !!!!!

  65. R.... L....

    My BF Bobby got me in 2 the blues n i got 2 say aint that loving babe..

  66. J.... R....

    Jimmy Reed you brighten my mo Jo xx

  67. T.... A....

    Utter brilliant

  68. t.... ....

    That album, by Etta, is amazing. The audience was just short of burning the joint down, and Etta was incredible, on "Baby, What You Want Me to Do?", where she uses her voice to sound like a horn and/or harp, and blows a riff for several minutes.

  69. T.... B....

    My pops song right here God rest his soul love u pops

  70. L.... G....

    Great music, can't stand the crap they do today

  71. L.... G....

    Came across this track accidentally. I'd not heard of Jimmy Reed! thanks for introducing me I thing he's great;-)

  72. e.... ....

    One of the most influential, pleasant-voiced influences in the blues. AA major influence on anyone who was/is ANY1 in the world of Blues or rock, covered by Rod Stewart to the Yardbirds, and Rolling Stones. Good book on him out there titled Big Boss Man, by Will Romano. Eddie Taylor accompanied him on many of his hits.

  73. C.... L....

    nope. Chicago blues is a way of life for some of us.

  74. J.... D....

    Its a cover of my babe of little walter?

  75. U.... V....

    I got here by having the Solomon Burke song "Cry to Me" in my head, so I look up the year it came out, then went to wikipage "1964 in music", looked at the albums that came out in Jan. of that year, went to Etta James Rocks the House album, noted she did "Baby what you want me to do" by JR, and then looked up "Jimmy Reed" on Youtube.

  76. p.... ....

    Why hasn't any yall mentioned Link Wray? Dang, nuff said.

  77. M.... ....

    Thank you, Dad, for showing me true music.

  78. S.... ....

    Great music..love this jam!!

  79. S.... ....

    Love this stuff!! All you O.G.'s know what's up! I knew his son back in the day, he played a harmonica and would sit on my steps and play for me all night long.

  80. b.... ....

    Sublime. When he sings "crawl home to yooooo" it still kills me 30 years after first hearing it.

  81. E.... L....

    Old School! Get Down!

  82. t.... ....

    Excellent track!Takes me back to the clubs in Kansas City in '63.

  83. N.... ....

    One of the first to BLOW my mind! Thank you for posting & subbed ya xx "Jenny"

  84. B.... J....

    Not only was he a great musician, hotttt and look at the size of those feet!

  85. c.... ....

    2 dislikes ?!?! Jimmy Reed was a major influence of Elvis, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles .. i suggest you stick you shallowness where the sun don't shine

  86. c.... h....

    Great blues from a giant

  87. P.... ....

    I was raised on Jimmy Reed and Ray Charles...thanks Mom and Dad! And thanks for posting.

  88. m.... j....

    genial musica una que trasciende realmente

  89. t.... ....

    This has been my #1 favorite Jimmy Reed song since I heard it when it was first released. I got to see him in person, in the 70s, just before he passed away. He was still FANTASTIC. Great show, with the legendary Jimmy Witherspoon also giving a great performance.

    THIS SONG IS THE STORY OF MY LIFE. TIMES TWO.

  90. B.... B....

    LOVE THIS SONG!!! Love Jimmy!

  91. w.... r....

    Hey sotathug941 That fellow in the picture is a Young Jimmy Reed.

  92. r.... r....

    who is the dude on the pic tho?? thats not the real jimmy..

  93. S.... R....

    BESTIA JIMMY R !

  94. E.... ....

    Awesome, very distinctive bluesman with nice pop appeal.