Led Zeppelin: Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You
in 1962, and most notably by Led Zeppelin, included on their 1969 debut album Led Zeppelin. The band was inspired to cover the song after hearing Baez's version. Both guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant were big fans of Baez. Baez's original album had indicated that the song was a traditional number so Led Zeppelin thought nobody could claim they wrote it, and followed suit by crediting the song as "Trad., arr. Page". In the 1980s, Bredon's son was intrigued to hear his mother playing what he thought was a Led Zeppelin song. After being asked why she was doing this, Bredon contacted a solicitor. Since 1990 the Led Zeppelin version has been credited to Anne Bredon/Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, and Bredon received a substantial back-payment in royalties. Led Zeppelin's version is not particularly reminiscent of Bredon's original, as it borrows more from Baez's cover of the song. This was the number Page played to Plant at their first meeting together, which took place at Page's riverside home at Pangbourne in August 1968. It is often stated that the song evolved when Plant played to Page the guitar arrangement which eventually found its way onto the album. In an interview he gave with Guitar World magazine in 1998, Page refuted this story, noting that he had worked out the arrangement long before he met Robert, told him he would like it on the album, and that Robert at that time did not even play the guitar. It is rumoured that Page recorded another version of the song, with Steve Winwood, in 1968, which was never released. At the 1:43 mark of Led Zeppelin's version of "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You", it is possible to hear a very faint trace of Plant singing, "I can hear it calling me" just before he sings the same line in full volume. It is as if he "hears it calling him." This "ghost" is the vocal bleed from Plant's scratch vocal, and it appears on the drum tracks, which were recorded live with the full band. In the early days of Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin 1-2 era), Jimmy Page Tended to use a Fuzzbox while performing the song. Led Zeppelin cite their best performace of the song to be at Copenhagen, Denmark, late 1968. At which Jimmy played the song with heavy fuzz. Led Zeppelin cite this as one of their greatest songs as they state it is the pinnicle of Jimmy's “Loud-soft” template for Zeppelin material. The band only played this song live at Led Zeppelin concerts on their 1969 concert tours.I said baby, you know I'm gonna leave you.
I'll leave you when the summertime,
Leave you when the summer comes a-rollin'
Leave you when the summer comes along.
Baby, baby, I don't wanna leave you,
I ain't jokin' woman, I got to ramble.
Oh, yeah, baby, baby, I believin',
We really got to ramble.
I can hear it callin' me the way it used to do,
I can hear it callin' me back home!
Babe...I'm gonna leave you
Oh, baby, you know, I've really got to leave you
Oh I can hear it callin 'me
I said don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do?
Ohhh
I know, I know
I know I never never never gonna leave your babe
But I got to go away from this place,
I've got to quit you, yeah
Ooh, baby...
Baby, ooh don't you hear it callin' me?
Woman, woman, I know, I know
It feels good to have you back again
And I know that one day baby, it's really gonna grow, yes it is.
We gonna go walkin' through the park every day.
Come what may, every day
Oooh, mama baby
I'm gonna leave you--go away
It was really, really good.
You made me happy every single day.
But now!
I've got to go away!
Baby, baby, baby, baby
That's when it's callin' me
I said that's when it's callin' me back home...
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