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Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby)

by Diana Krall, Dinah Washington, B.B. King · posted by WaltP

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Draw note
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IS YOU IS, OR IS YOU AIN’T (Ma’ Baby?)
By: Billy Austin & Louis Jordan 
Diana Krall, Dinah Washington, B.B. King
Key: Fm

-4-3* 3*-3*   3* -3*  3*   4
I got a gal who's al-ways late
-3*3* -3* 3*  -3* 3*  4 
An-y time we have a date
-2  3*  4   4   -2  3*  4   4
But I love her  Yes I love her

-4  -3* 3*  -3* 3* -3* 3*   4  
I'm gon-na walk up to her gate
 3* -3* 3*-3* 3* -3* 3*    4
And see if I can get it straight
   -2  3*  4   4  -2   3* -2  4   4 
‘Cause I want her I'm gon-na ask her

4   4  4  4  4   4    4  -3* 3* -2 
Is you is or is you ain't my ba-by

-23*4-5*-5 ~ -23*4-5*-5  

-2   4    4     4   4    4  4  
The way you're act-ing late-ly 
  4    4   3*
makes me doubt
   4   4    4   4  4 -3*  3* -2
You’se is still my ba-by, ba-by

-23*4-5*-5 ~ -23*4-5*-5  

  4   4    4   4    4   
Seems my flame in your 
  4       4   4    3*
heart's done gone out

3*-3* 3*-3* 3* -3*  3* 
A wom-an is a crea-ture 
 -3*  3* 4   -1*   3    -2
that has al-ways been strange
 3*   -3*   3*    -3* 3* -3*  3*  -3*
Just when you're sure of one you find
  3*    4   4    4  4   1*
She's gone and made a change

4   4  4  4  4   4    4  -3* 3* -2 
Is you is or is you ain't my ba-by

-23*4-5*-5 ~ -23*4-5*-5  

 4  4  4   4     4    4    4  4  4
May-be ba-by's found some-bod-y new
-2  4  4  4  4    4    4  4  4   3*
Or is ma’ ba-by still ma’ ba-by true

4   4  4  4  4   4    4  -3* 3* -2 
Is you is or is you ain't my ba-by

-23*4-5*-5 ~ -23*4-5*-5  

 4  4  4   4     4    4    4  4  4
May-be ba-by's found some-bod-y new
-2  4  4  4  4    4    4  4  4   3*
Or is ma’ ba-by still ma’ ba-by true



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