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Pretty Baby

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Sep. 19781 viewer10.4K views

Pretty Baby Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Stars live in the evening
But the very young need the sun, uh-huh

Pretty baby, you look so heavenly
A neo-nebular from under the sun
I was forming, some say I had my chance
The boys were falling like an avalanche

[Verse 2]
Ya ya baby
La Dolce Vita is a magic dance
No-one was listening
Pretty baby, un petite ingenue

A teenage starlet, I fell in love with you

[Verse 3]
You, you with the comb
You look OK in every way every way
Ah, I should have known
You'd look at me and look away and look away - oh

[verse 4]
Pretty baby, you look so heavenly
A neo-nebular from under the sun
Eyes that tell me incense and peppermints
Your looks are larger than life, long live innocence

Petite ingenue, I fell in love with you
Pretty baby, I fell in love with you, whoah oh
Pretty baby, oh oh
Pretty baby, whoah oh, I fell in love with you

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Written in 1978 by Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, “Pretty Baby” is written for and about teenage actress and model of the era, Brooke Shields. The same year, the 12-year-old Shields played the role of a child prostitute in a controversial Louis Malle film (also titled “Pretty Baby”).

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Record Plant (New York City, New York)
Release Date
September 1978
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