AC/DC – Baby Please Don’t Go

When I first saw this video it highly amused me. Seeing Bon Scott in pigtails caught me off guard. They did a great version of this song…I will always turn to Van Morrison’s Them as my definite version, but this one is a lot of fun.

This song appeared on their debut album High Voltage released in 1974. Bon Scott was an excellent singer. He was in a pop band called The Valentines and it’s odd, to say the least seeing him singing in this band. He adapted well to what was asked of him with AC/DC.

The band toured relentlessly in the mid to late seventies and when they released Highway To Hell, it was a milestone for them. They set themselves up for a huge payday on the next album. Scott died in 1980 as they were starting on their new album which turned out to be the mega-selling Back In Black. I think if Scott had lived they would have had just as big of an album. The Highway To Hell album was the key to getting them known worldwide.

Blues great Big Joe Williams is credited with writing this song, but it was developed from a folk song titled “Long John,” which was recorded in 1934 by John and Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress. That recording captures the song sung by black prisoners at Darrington State Prison Farm in Texas. It was a popular tune because “Long John” was about an escaped prisoner on the run from authorities.

Baby Please Don’t Go

Baby please don’t goBaby please don’t goBaby please don’t go down to New OrleansYou know I love you soBaby please don’t go

When the man done goneWhen the man done goneWhen the man done gone down to the county farmHe got the shackles onBaby please don’t goDon’t leave me

I’ll be a dogI’ll be a dog woahI’ll be a dog kiss your way down thereWhen you walk alongBaby please don’t go

Baby please don’t goBaby please don’t goBaby please don’t go down to New OrleansYou know I love you soBaby please don’t go

No baby please don’t leave meWhy must you go away and do this to me babyI want to suffer for you, suffer, sufferOh baby please don’t goNo!

Baby, baby, baby, please don’t go, please don’t goDon’t go and leave me, please don’t goBaby, hummBaby, ahahOh don’t go, no don’t goOh don’t go, no don’t goAh don’t go, don’t go so slowOh don’t go, no don’t go

Why must you leave me lying on my backGoing across left side of the trackFound yourself a new man I knowSo baby please don’t goBaby please don’t go

No no no noOh please, please don’t leave meI don’t want to be left alone babyAh don’t go, don’t go, don’t goNo!

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Author: Badfinger (Max)

Power Pop fan, Baseball, Beatles, Alternative music, old movies, and tv show fan. Also anything to do with pop culture in the 60s and 70s... I'm also a songwriter, bass and guitar player. Not the slightest bit interested in politics at all.

36 thoughts on “AC/DC – Baby Please Don’t Go”

  3. I always loved Bon Scott’s version of AC/DC they were funky & bluesy…those were my jr. high years & then he died when I was sophomore in high school & then went Johnston became the lead singer my friends freaked out with the ‘Back in Black’ album.

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    1. Oh I like them as well…probably a little more with Bon… he set them up with those songs to make it…yea they rocketed to fame with Back in Black….I think if they would have had Bon…it would have happened the same.

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  5. Wow that’s something. I wouldn’t have guessed in 100 tries it was him doing that Valentines song! His voice was a little rough for that song, but he did it ok…who’d think it?

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      2. I’ve heard a few of that bands songs…I like them and I heard his Hoover commercial he did around 1980 right before he joined.

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  11. Angus! Angus! Angus!🎸🎸🎸

    Man, I just love AC/DC. Time and again, they are proof rock doesn’t need to be complicated to roll. Seeing Bon Scott looking like Pipi Langstrumpf definitely is an added bonus.

    With all that said, as much as I dig the Aussie rockers, I acknowledge Them has the edge with their rendition of “Baby Please Don’t Go.”

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  12. I’m so far behind on everyone’s posts (my bad) but man its AC/DC. The video is bonkers to say the least haha and thanks for the backstory on the original Sir!

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