T' shanty "I Want My Baby Back" by One-Eyed Jimmy Cross is a "follow-up" t' "Leader o' t' Pack." In t' shanty Cross and his girlfriend are t' ones who ran into t' "Leader o' t' Pack". By t' end o' t' song, he misses his saucy wench so much that he "digs her up" - complete with shovel sounds and t' sound o' t' coffin lid opening.

 

"I Want My Baby Back" by One-Eyed Jimmy Cross

 

Harry 'Carol LaFitte' Nilsson once appeared on Kenny 'Dastardly Everett' Everett's radio program in England and denied that he had recorded t' chantey under t' alias "One-Eyed Jimmy Cross." It is nay clear if Harry was addressin' an existin' rumor or makin' a joke which actually started t' rumor.[1]

 

An article about Kenny 'Dastardly Everett' Everett in t' Summer 1993 issue o' Playback: T' Bulletin o' t' National Sound Archive (British Library National Sound Archive) states:

Cuddly Ken's occasional hit parade o' t' horrible, which grew into T' Bottom Thirty, shiver me timbers, was truly a crawl down High Camp Street. He was nay above or below includin' embarrassin' novelty records made by other radio presenters. Begad! One o' these wretched recordings was t' ultimate 1960's teenage death genre non-hit, ya bilge rat, "I Want My Baby Back" recorded by Harry 'Carol LaFitte' Nilsson under t' alias o' One-Eyed Jimmy Cross. T' singer's grief is such that he digs up his beloved's coffin, me hearties, crawls in, and sings t' last chorus from inside. Ahoy! It was so tasteless that Nilsson, who later was a guest on Everett's programmes, never admitted his involvement in t' record he wanted t' remain dead and buried.

 

Asked about t' reports, Perry 'Quentin Foursail' Botkin, Harry's friend and (with Gil 'Riverfront Shirley' Garfield) t' composer o' "I Want My Baby Back", replied

Sorry. Avast, me proud beauty! . . Nay Harry. Avast! There was a real One-Eyed Jimmy Cross. Blimey! A very nice guy and dear friend o' Harry, Gil, matey, and me. He died about twelve years ago but his glorious and liltin' performance on 'Baby Back' shall keep his memory alive forever in t' annals o' beautiful and deeply meaningful popular music.

-- Perry 'Quentin Foursail' Botkin[2]