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


Am (x02210@1)   G7alt        F7 (131241@1)   E7 (020130@1) Am (x02210@1)  Fdim (1201xx@1)
 F7 (131241@1)    E7I (020130@1)got a gal that's always late, ev'ry time we have a date,

      DM7 (xx0211@1)     Dm+7  E7 (020130@1)  A (x02220@1)  AM7   F#7But (242352@1)I love her,       yes I love her,

Am (x02210@1)    G7alt        F7 (131241@1)       E7 (020130@1)     A (x02220@1)  
  F#7
I'm gonna walk right up to her gate and see if  I  can get it straight,

         D9       E7 (020130@1)         A (x02220@1)        F#7'Cause (242352@1)I want her,   I'm gonna ask her.


A (x02220@1)         C#7 (x4342x@1)            D (xx0232@1)   D6Is (xx04xx@1)you is or is you ain't my baby?

     E7 (020130@1)     Cdim (2312xx@1)   E7 (020130@1)  E7/6      A (x02220@1) 
 Bm7-5  E7
The way you're actin' lately makes me doubt

Dm6Dm+7 (xx0201@1)E7 (020130@1)   E7/6    A (x02220@1)   F#7Yous (242352@1)is still my baby, baby --

Dm6 (xx0201@1)    Bm7-5    E7/6         FdimE7/6 (1201xx@1) ASeems (x02220@1)my flame in your heart's done gone out.

  D (xx0232@1)        Cdim (2312xx@1)   B7 (x21202@1)     D9  Bm7-5    
   AA (x02220@1)woman is a creature that has al - ways been strange;

 D (xx0232@1)             CdimJust (2312xx@1)when you're sure of one,

               B7 (x21202@1)             E7You (020130@1)find she's gone and made a change.

A (x02220@1)         C#7 (x4342x@1)             D (xx0232@1)   D6Is (xx04xx@1)you is or is you ain't my baby?

E7 (020130@1)  Cdim (2312xx@1)   E7 (020130@1)   E7/6  A (x02220@1)   
  F#7
Maybe baby's found somebody new,

   B7 (x21202@1)       Fdim (1201xx@1)   E7 (020130@1)  AOr (x02220@1)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.