Your Baby Aint Sweet Like Mine Chords

Carolina Chocolate Drops - Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine
From Genuine Negro Jig, 2010
Originally played on banjo
Tabbed for guitar by Ben Spiller
 
[Intro]
   C                     G                              C
e|---------|-----------|----3----3--|-----------------0-0-|----|
B|---------|-1--1--554-|-3--3----3--|--3-----------11---1-|----|
G|-0-2--4--|-----------|----0--0-0--|-----0--0-2-4------0-|-x2-|
D|---------|-----------|----0----0--|-------------------2-|----|
A|---------|-----------|----2----2--|-------------------3-|----|
E|---------|-----------|----3----3--|---------------------|----|
 
 
[Verse 1]
C                            G
Everybody's talkin' bout their sweetie nowadays
G                         C
I've got the one with the sweetest ways
C             G
Your baby may roll-the-jelly-fine
G N.C. (no chords)
  Nobody' baby can roll it like mine
 
C               G
Your baby ain't sweet like mine
G                      C
She bakes a jelly roll all the time
C                    G
And when I'm feelin' lonesome and blue
G NC
  My baby knows just what to do
 
[Chorus]
        C                 G/D G
Yes-uh, She even calls me ho-ney
G                         C/E C
She even let me spend her mo-ney
 
E7                A7
Never has my baby put me outdoor
E7               A
She even buys me all my clothes
 
  E7          F#7          C          A
I don't wanna brag I wanna put you in line
     D7         G          C       A
Your baby ain't sweet like mine no no
     D          G7         C
Your baby ain't sweet like mine
 
[Kazoo solo 1]
(played over intro)
 
[Verse 2]
C               G
Your baby ain't sweet like mine
G                     C
She bake a jelly roll all the time
C                    G
And when I'm feelin' lonesome and blue
G NC
  My baby knows just what to do - yes uh
 
[Chorus]
        C                 G/D G
Yes-uh, She even calls me ho-ney
G                         C/E C
She even let me spend her mo-ney
 
E7                A7
Never has my baby put me outdoor
E7               A
She even buys me all my clothes
 
  E7          F#7          C          A
I don't wanna brag I wanna put you in line
     D7         G          C       A
Your baby ain't sweet like mine no no
     D          G7         C
Your baby ain't sweet like mine
 
[Drum solo]
(no chords)
 
[Kazoo solo]
(same as chorus:)
C          G/D    G
G          C/E    C
E7         A7
E7         A
E7         F#7        C       A
D7         G          C       A
D          G7         C
 
 
[Verse 3]
C               G
Your baby ain't sweet like mine
G                 C
Bake a jelly roll all the time
C                    G
And when I'm feelin' lonesome and blue
G NC
  Baby baby know just what to do
 
[Chorus]
        C                 G/D G
Yes-uh, She even calls me ho-ney [honey!]
G                         C/E C
She even let me spend her mo-ney [all my money]
 
E7                A7
Never has my baby put me outdoors [I'd never do that]
E7               A
She even buys me all my clothes
 
 
  E7          F#7             C          A
I don't wanna brag just wanna put you in line
     D7         G          C       A
Your baby ain't sweet like mine oh no
     D7         G          C       A
Your baby ain't sweet like mine oh yes
     D          G7         C
Your baby ain't sweet like mine
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