Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby chords by Dinah Washington

Chords with lyrics

Difficulty: Novice

Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby
Words & Music by Billy Austin & Louis Jordan
Recorded by Louis Jordan*, 1944 (#2)


A minorAm   G7alt    F7F7   E7E7  A minorAm  FdimFdim
 F7F7   E7E7
I got a gal that's always late, ev'ry time we have a date,

   DM7    DmDm+7 E7E7  A augmentedA  AM7  F#7F#7
But I love her,    yes I love her,

A minorAm   G7alt    F7F7     E7E7    A augmentedA
 F#7F#7
I'm gonna walk right up to her gate and see if I can get it straight,

     D9D9    E7E7      A augmentedA     F#7F#7
'Cause I want her,  I'm gonna ask her.

A augmentedA      C#7C#7       D MajorD   D6D6
Is you is or is you ain't my baby?

   E7E7    CdimCdim   E7E7  E7/6   A augmentedA
 Bm7-5 E7E7
The way you're actin' lately makes me doubt

Dm6Dm6 DmDm+7 E7E7   E7/6  A augmentedA   F#7F#7
Yous is still my baby, baby --

Dm6Dm6   Bm7-5  E7/6     FdimFdim E7/6 A augmentedA
Seems my flame in your heart's done gone out.

 D MajorD     CdimCdim   B7B7    D9D9 Bm7-5
  A augmentedA
A majorA woman is a creature that has al - ways been strange;

 D MajorD        CdimCdim
Just when you're sure of one,

        B7B7        E7E7
You find she's gone and made a change.

A augmentedA      C#7C#7        D MajorD   D6D6
Is you is or is you ain't my baby?

E7E7  CdimCdim   E7E7   E7/6 A augmentedA
 F#7F#7
Maybe baby's found somebody new,

  B7B7     FdimFdim   E7E7  A augmentedA
Or is my baby still my baby true?

*I'm crediting Jordan here principly because he co-wrote and popularized the song, but
listened to several versions -- notably Dinah Washington's from 1956 and Diana Krall's
1994 -- and each have their advantages.