Live 31 Jan 1998 version
There goes my baby, moving on down the line
I wonder where, I wonder where, I wonder where she is bound
I broke her heart and I made her cry
Now I'm alone, so all alone
What can I do, what can I do?
(There goes my baby) Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh
(There goes my baby) Yeah-eah-eah-eah-eah
(There goes my baby) Whoa-oh-oh-oh
(There she goes) Now (There she goes) Well, I love...
(There goes my baby) Oh-oh-oh
(There goes my baby) Oh well I need her
(There goes my baby) Need her by my side
(There goes my baby) There to be my guide
(There she goes) I wanna know (There she goes) I wanna know now
I know
Oh
Oh
I just wanna tell her that I love her (ooh)
And that I need her (ooh)
Beside my side (ooh) to be my guide (ooh)
I wanna know, I wanna know
(There goes my baby)
(There goes my baby) Yeah-eah-eah
(There goes my baby) Yeah-eah-eah
(There she goes) Easy babe! (There she goes)
(There goes my baby) (Whoo) Oh
(There goes my baby) Oh (Whoo)
(There goes my baby) (Whoo) Oh
(There she goes) (Ha) (There she goes) La la la la la la
(There goes my baby) Sha la la la la la (whoo)
(There goes my baby) Oh
(There goes my baby) (hoo, hoo)
There she goes
There she goes
Hoo (hoo-oo-oo-oo-oo)
THERE GOES MY BABY is a 1959 song by The Drifters. See the original The Drifters version for more details.
The above lyrics are for live 31 Jan 1998 performance of THERE GOES MY BABY at Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ, during the "Come Together: Jon Bon Jovi & Friends" benefit concert. Southside Johnny was on lead vocals on this song. Bruce Springsteen did not sing, but he probably was onstage playing guitar during this and all the other songs on which he did not sing.
The "Come Together: Jon Bon Jovi & Friends" benefit concert was organized by the Long Branch Police Department, The Asbury Park Press, and FPI Concerts, along with Jon Bon Jovi. The concert was to honor slain Long Branch police officer Sgt. Patrick King and raise money for the Sgt. Patrick King Memorial Fund to provide for his family. King, 45-year-old father of two young boys, was fatally shot on 20 Nov 1997 by a fugitive who had vowed to kill himself and a police officer rather than be captured and returned to jail.
Twenty musicians with ties to the Jersey shore music scene answered Jon Bon Jovi's call, including Bruce Springsteen and several members of the then-disbanded E Street Band (Clarence Clemons, Danni Frederici, Patti Scialfa, Steven Van Zandt, and Max Weinberg), Southside Johnny, Bobby Bandiera, and Richie Sambora among others. Actor Danny DeVito was the event's MC. Tickets, which were priced at $125, went on sale on 17 Jan 1998 noon and sold out in just eight minutes. The concert that was organized in short order raised more than $112,000 for King's widow and his two sons.
"It was a chance to forget about [the murder] a little bit," Long Branch police Sgt. Bruce Johantgen, one of about 50 city police officers who attended the show, told The Asbury Park Press. "The outpouring of love from the performers to the audience was unbelievable". Johantgen said he found it ironic that Bon Jovi and other performers thanked the audience for coming to the sold-out show. "From the police perspective, I kept thinking, 'We should be thanking you for giving your time'," Johantgen said.
This was a near-reunion of the fabled E Street Band and Springsteen's first full-length electric gig following the acoustic The Ghost Of Tom Joad Solo Acoustic Tour. Springsteen spent much (or possibly all) of the night onstage, singing or playing guitar only. Soundboard recording for the complete concert is available among collectors.
The 31 Jan 1998 show at Count Basie Theatre was commercially released in Europe. Since 2005 some enterprising record labels in Europe (mostly in the UK) have been releasing Bruce Springsteen radio and TV broadcasts (and some soundboard recordings) from the seventies, eighties, and nineties. Though these releases are not authorized by Bruce Springsteen or his record company, they are lawful due to a legal loophole in Europe.
THERE GOES MY BABY was performed off-tour on 31 Jan 1998 at Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ, during the "Come Together: Jon Bon Jovi & Friends" benefit concert.
Thanks Jake (ol'catfishinthelake at BTX and Greasy Lake) for the lyrics help.
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