Baby Please Don't Go - Parchman Farm

 The first photo of Elvis Presley was taken at Parchman Farm, brought by his mother at the age of three to visit his father. Vernon Presley had been sentenced to three years of hard labor for forging an $8 check.  Elvis is seen above with his parents against the backdrop of the Parchman Farm wall. (Mississippi State Prison).

Parchman Farm Guitars

 On December 22, 1961, just a month following completion of his self-titled Columbia debut LP, Bob Dylan visited the Minneapolis apartment of his friend Bonnie Beecher, where he recorded some 26 songs to reel-to-reel tape. Known previously by the somewhat confusing catch-all Minnesota Hotel Tape, this material remains one of the seminal sessions of Dylan's career, official or otherwise. Music of extraordinary intimacy and confidence, Bonnie Beecher’s Apartment represents probably our best insight into what made the budding Dylan such a captivating and unprecedented talent.

Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go
Back to New Orleans
You know it hurt me so.

I'm way down here
Babe i'm way down here
Babe i'm way down here
'd give a girl for a beer
Baby please don't go.

I'm on Parchman farm
I'm on Parchman farm
I'm on Parchman farm
Didn't do no wrong
Baby please don't go.

Baby i'm way down low
Baby i'm way down low
Baby i'm way down low
I ain't do no harm
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go.

Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go.

New Orleans is bad
New Orleans is bad
New Orleans is bad
Worst times i've ever had
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go.

Jack o' diamonds is hard
Jack o' diamonds is hard
Jack o' diamonds is hard
But it's the only card
Jack o' diamonds is hard.

Well you know what i mean
Where is the money i made
Well theres's two cards lookin'
One is the eight of diamonds
The other's the ace of spades
The other's the ace of spades
The other's the ace of spades.

Honey i need you now
Honey i need you now
Honey i need you now
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go
Back to Jackson town
Babe i need you so
An' i love you so.