Elvis Presley - Tell me why, baby
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"Tell Me Why, Baby" is a country-blues number from the Sun-period of Elvis Presley in the mid-1950s.
Something has changed.
The girl who once met him every night is suddenly never home.
When he sees her walking down the street, he calls her name.
She looks at him...
and keeps walking.
He doesn't know whether there's somebody else.
He doesn't know whether he said something wrong.
He doesn't even know whether she still loves him.
He only wants an answer.
Built around the repeated “Tell Me Why, Baby” refrain, the song blends country rhythm with a bluesy guitar sound and the loose, spontaneous feeling of an early SUN-style recording.
The vocal asks the questions.
The guitar seems to answer them.
But the girl never does.

