"Keep Your Hands Off My Baby" (Goffin & King) [2' 29"]

Recorded 22 January 1963 at the Playhouse Theatre, London; broadcast 26 January 1963, Saturday Club [BBC Light]

The Beatles. (as above)

The Beatles. 1994. The Beatles Live at the BBC [1:6]. London: EMI Records Ltd. [Apple CDP 7243 8 31796 2 6]

Much of their repertoire at this stage consists of American pop songs. Goffin and King composed this song as Little Eva's follow up to "Locomotion."

	Section	Time	Meas.	Description	Text
	Intro	0:00	4	drums and vocal (other materials inaudible)	—
A	Verse	0:	16		a
B	Chorus	:	32	soloist with responding chorus	b
A	Verse	:	16		c
B	Chorus	:	32		b
A	Verse	:	16	guitar version of vocal line	—
B	Chorus	:	28	as in chorus above, but with segue into a repeat	b
B	Chorus+	:	24	as in chorus above, but truncated and ended	b

Text
We've been friends for oh so long, I like to share what's mine; When you mess with the girl I love, it's time to draw the line.	a
Keep your hands off my baby, Ain't a gonna tell you but a one more time. Keep your hands off my baby, Before [/and] you go to do your best, that girl is mine.	b
I never mind if you lend my clothes, but you were bein' good; There are some things that you can say, but there's one thing you don't touch	c

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