I Got Plenty O' Nuttin"

by Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong · posted by WaltP

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab

I GOT PLENTY O’ NUTTIN’
By Ira Gershwin & DuBose Heyward
From Porgy & Bess
Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong
Key: G

-5 7   -7  7 -7  -8  -9
I got plen-ty o’ nut-tin’
-5  -8   -8    -7  -8 -7  7   
An’ nut-tin's plen-ty fo’ me
-6* 6  6  5*    6  6   5*
I got no car - got no mule
5* 6  6   5*  6 6*
I got no mis-er-y
-6*  7    7   -7  7 -7   -8  -9
De folks wid plen-ty o’ plen-ty
-8 -8  -7  -8 -7 7-6* 
got a lock on de door
6      6    5* 5*   5* 6 6  6   5*  5*
Fraid some-bod-y's  a go-in to rob 'em
5*     5*    6  6  5*  6   6*     -6*  7  
While dey’s out a mak-in’ more - what for
-6*-5 -4  -5  -4 -5  -6*
I got no lock on de door – 
6    -6*  6  -4 -5
dat's no way to be
6   -6*   6   -4 -5   -4  -5  -6*
Dey can steal de rug from de floor – 
6    -6*6  -4 -5
dat's O-K wid me
-4     -5   6     5  6  -6*
'Cause de things dat I prize – 
-5  -6*   7   6  7   -7   -6*  -7   8 
like de stars in de skies all are free
-5  7  7   -7  7  -7 -8  -9
Oh, I got plen-ty o’ nut-tin’
-5  -8  -8     -7  -8 -7  7
An’ nut-tin's plen-ty fo’ me
-6* 6 6  6     6   6  5*
I got a gal - got my song
5*   6   6   6    5*   6   6*
Got heb-ben the whole day long
-6* -6* 7    -6  -6  7      6  6   7
Got my gal - got my Lawd - got my song

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