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From Wikipedia:
\"Babe I'm Gonna Leave You\" is a folk song written by Anne Bredon (then known as Anne Johannsen) in the late 1950s. It was recorded by Joan Baez (credited as \"traditional\") and released on her 1962 album Joan Baez in Concert, Part 1, and also by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, who included it 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 fans of Baez. Baez's original album had indicated no writing credit, and Led Zeppelin credited the song as \"Trad. arr. Page\". In the 1980s, Bredon was made aware of Led Zeppelin's version of the song. 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.
This was the number Page played to Plant at their first meeting together. It is sometimes stated that the song evolved when Plant played to Page the guitar arrangement which eventually found its way onto the album.
At the 1:41 mark, 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. 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.
Lyrics:
Babe, baby, baby, I'm Gonna Leave You.
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
Babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, baby
Mm, baby, I'll wanna leave you
I ain't jokin', woman, I've got to ramble
Oh, yeah, baby, baby, I will really, really got to ramble
I can hear it callin' me the way it used to do
Oh, I can hear it callin' me back home
Baby, oh, babe, I'm gonna leave you
Hoh, 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?
Oh
I know, I know
I know I never, never, never, never, never gonna leave you, babe
But I gotta go away from this place, I gotta quit you, yeah
Oh, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, oh
Don't you hear it callin' me again?
Oh, woman, ah, a woman, I know, I know
Feels good to have you back again and I know that one day, baby
It's gonna really grow, yes it is
We're gonna go walkin' through the park every day
Come what may, every day, oh, my, my, my, my, my, my babe
I'm gonna leave you, go away
Hoh, oh God, miss your lips, sweet baby
It was really, really good
You made me happy every single day
But now I've got to go away, oh, oh, oh 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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