Oh.
Oh.
Oh,
(Bb)oh.
You know you (Eb)love me, I know you care.
Just shout when (Cm)ev er, and I’ll be there.
You are my (Ab)love, you are my heart, and we will (Bb)nev er ev er ev er be a part.
Are we an (Eb)i tem?
Girl, quit play in’.
We’re (Cm)just friends, what are you say in’?
Said there’s an (Ab)oth er and looked right in my eyes.
My first (Bb)love broke my heart for the first time.
And I was like, (Eb)“Ba by, ba by, ba by, oh, like (Cm)ba by, ba by, ba by, no, like (Ab)ba by, ba by, ba by, oh,
(Bb)thought you’d al ways be mine, mine.
(Eb)Ba by, ba by, ba by, oh, like (Cm)ba by, ba by, ba by, no, like (Ab)ba by, ba by, ba by, oh,
(Bb)thought you’d al ways be mine, mine.” Oh, for (Eb)you I would have done what ev er, and I just (Cm)can’t be lieve we ain’t to geth er.
And I wan na (Ab)play it cool, but I’m los in’ you.
I’ll buy you (Bb)an y thing, I’ll buy you an y ring.
And I’m in (Eb)piec es; ba by, fix me.
And you (Cm)shake me ’til you wake me from this bad dream.
I’m (Ab)go ing down, down, down, down, and I just (Bb)can’t be lieve my first love won’t be a round.
And I’m like, mine.”
When I was thir teen, I had my first love.
There was no bod y that com pared to my ba by, and no bod y came be tween us or could ev er come a bove.
She had me go ing cra zy, oh, I was star struck.
She woke me up dai ly, don’t need no Star bucks.
She made my heart pound, it skip a beat when I see her in the street and at school on the play ground.
But I real ly want to see her on a week end.
She knows she got me daz ing, ’cause she was so a maz (Bb)ing, and now my heart is break ing.
But I just keep on say ing, (Eb)“Ba by, ba by, ba by, oh, like (Cm)ba by, ba by, ba by, no, like (Ab)ba by, ba by, ba by, oh,
(Bb)thought you’d al ways be mine, mine.” (Eb)“Ba by, ba by, ba by, oh, like (Cm)ba by, ba by, ba by, no, like (Ab)ba by, ba by, ba by, oh,
(Bb)thought you’d al ways be mine, mine.”
mine.” I’m gone, (Eb)Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well, yeah, I’m all yeah.
gone.
(Cm)Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Now yeah, I’m all yeah.
gone, (Ab)Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, now yeah, I’m all gone, gone.
gone, gone, gone.
I’m gone.
This page shows “Baby” by Justin Bieber in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of Ab at 128 BPM, a medium-difficulty arrangement — try slowing the tempo down using the BPM control.
This arrangement is a great way to build confidence playing in a flat key — Ab major puts your hands on a mix of black and white keys that feels awkward at first but actually sits very naturally once you commit to relaxed, curved fingers over the black keys. At 128 BPM the tempo is brisk, so start at around 80–90 BPM and lock in the right-hand rhythm before speeding up; the syncopated eighth-note patterns in the melody will trip you up if you rush. Your left hand mostly cycles through familiar chord shapes — Ab, Eb, Fm, Db — but the transition from Fm to Db deserves extra repetition because the hand shift is wider than the others. Practice that two-bar turnaround in a loop until it's automatic. For pedal, keep it light: one clean press per chord change, lifting precisely on the transition so you don't blur the bass. Once this clicks, you'll have the I–V–vi–IV progression wired into your muscle memory in a key most beginners avoid, and that's a genuine skill upgrade.