Chords for "Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie" taught by John Miller (pt1 of 2)

Now I think we're ready to take a look at Oh Baby It Ain't No Lie, another one of Elizabeth Cotton's best known tunes.
And it's played in C standard tuning.
So just to sort of save us time after the film clip runs,
let's get back up to standard tuning now.
So I'm going to tune my fifth string from G up to A,
_ [Ab] _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ my sixth string up to E from D, _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] and my first string up to E [Db] from D [G] also.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ [B] _ Okay, I think [A] we're ready to go and we'll [Abm] check that once again before we get [Bb] into the teaching of it.
Let's see Elizabeth play Oh Baby It Ain't No Lie now.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Bb]
Just one little verse and I'm going to sing it [Dm] for y'all.
There is one old woman [Eb] lord in this town, keep [Bb] her telling her lies on me. _ _ _
_ _ Wish to my soul that [Eb] old woman would die, [E] keep her telling [G] her lies [Gm] on me.
_ [C] _ Oh baby it ain't [Bb] no lie, _ _ [D] oh _ baby it ain't [Eb] no lie, _ _ oh baby it [Dm] ain't no lie.
_ _ No this life I'm living is [Bb] very hard.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
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_ [F] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
All right, so now we've heard Elizabeth do Oh Baby It Ain't No Lie.
We're ready to tackle it ourselves, but before we do that, let's check our tuning one more time.
Sixth string, [Eb] _ _ fifth string, [Gb] _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] fourth string, _ _ _ _ _ third string, _ _ _ _ _ _ second string, _ _ _ _ _ first string.
[E] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] And here in the interest [D] of sort of getting you [Ab] visually [G] accustomed to seeing a right-handed person play it,
I'll just give you one chorus of Oh Baby It Ain't No Lie. _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
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