aint misbehavin chart
How to play “Ain’t Misbehavin'” on guitar
ain’t misbehavin’. First performed at the premiere of Connie’s Hot Chocolates in Harlem at Connie’s Inn as an opening song by Paul Bass and Margaret Simms, and repeated later in the musical by Russell Wooding’s Hallelujah Singers. Connie’s Hot Chocolates was transferred to the Hudson Theatre on Broadway during June 1929, where it was renamed to Hot Chocolates and where Louis Armstrong became the orchestra director. The script also required Armstrong to play “Ain’t Misbehavin‘” in a trumpet solo, and although this was initially slated only to be a reprise of the opening song, Armstrong’s performance was so well received that the trumpeter was asked to climb out of the orchestra pit and play the piece on stage. As noted by Thomas Brothers in his book Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism, Armstrong was first taught “Ain’t Misbehavin'” by Waller himself, “woodshedding” it until he could “play all around it”; he cherished it “because it was ‘one of those songs you could cut loose and swing with.'”
Intro C | F Fm | C | G13
C | Edim7 | Dm7 | F#dim7
No one to talk to, all by myself;
C | C7 | F | Fm
No one to walk with, I’m happy on the shelf;
C | A7 | Dm7 | G7 | C A | D7 G7
Ain’t misbehavin, I’m savin’ all my love for you.
C Edim7 | Dm7 F#dim7
Now it’s for certain, the one I love;
C C7 | F Fm
I’m through with flirtin’ it’s just you I’m thinkin’ of.
C A7 | Dm7 G7 | C F6 Fm | C6 E7
Ain’t misbehavin, I’m savin’ all my love for you.
Am | F7
Like Jack Horner, in the corner,
D7 | A7
Don’t go nowhere — what do I care?
G6 E7 | A7 D7 | G7 A7 | D9 G7
Your kisses are worth waiting for, believe me.
C Edim7 | Dm7 F#dim7
I don’t stay out late, don’t care to go;
C C7 | F Fm
I’m home about eight, just me and my radio
C6 A7 | Dm7 G7 | C6 (C#o Dm7 G7 )
Ain’t misbehavin’, I’m savin’ all my love for (for you)
C | A7 | Dm7 | G7
Ain’t misbehavin’, I’m savin’ all my love
C | A7 | Dm7 | G7 | C
Ain’t misbehavin’, I’m savin’ all my love for you
F Fm | C G | C7