Chords for Ruth Brown - I Don't Know

_ _ [Cm] I'm sick and tired of the way you do.
[Bb] _ _ [Ab] Good fine papa, I'm a poison you.
_ [Cm] Sprinkle [A] goofy dust all around your [Bb] bed.
_ [Cm] Wake up in the morning and find your own self [Bb] dead.
_ [Ab] _ Well,
_ you [C] shouldn't say that.
_ What I'm gonna say this time,
_ _ baby.
I _
[Abm] _ _ don't know, [Db] my, oh, [Ab] my, oh, my.
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[Eb] _ I don't know what my [Ab] baby's putting down. _ _ _ _ _
The man I love got dimples in his jaw.
The clothes I buy him are made out of the best of cloth.
I can take him and wash him and hang him outside the wall.
I can throw him out the window he'll run around and catch him before they fall.
_ Sometimes I think you got your habits on.
_ _ _ _ _ Well, you shouldn't say that.
[B] What you want me to say this time, baby? _ _ _ _
[Db] Mmmmm, [Abm] I don't know.
[Abm] My oh my oh [F] my.
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[Ab] _ [Bbm] I don't know _ [Db] what [Abm] my [Ab] baby's putting down. _ _ _ _
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[Cm] My papa told me, my mother sat down and cried.
[Ab] You're too young a man, son, to have the many women you got.
I looked at my mother dear and I didn't even crack a smile.
I said if the women killed me, I don't mind dying. _
The man I love I warned week before last.
The man I love has run out of class. _
I thought I warned you, baby, a long time ago. _
If you don't watch your step, I'm going to have to let you go.
_ _ _ Well, you shouldn't say that.
Well, what am I going to say this time, [Db] baby? _ _ _ _
Mmmmm, I don't [Abm] know.
My [Abm] oh my oh [Eb] my.
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_ [Eb] I don't [Db] know _ [Db] what my [B] baby's putting [Db] _ [Bb] down.
_ You know what I'm putting down.
[Db] They don't [Eb] call me brown, brown, brown for [Ebm] nothing.
No, no, no.
You a tan [Db] canary and I know what to hand you to your cage, baby.
I still can't get [Ab] over you wanting to buy me them washing wear clothes.
Well, that's all right.
That's quick [D] change.
You know how [Eb] that is.
We don't always have too much time to do nothing [Ab] more than something, you know.
All right.
[Db] Might work to give it a try.
[Ab] But I still don't know.
But you don't [Abm] need to know.
What can you do to convince me?
What, baby?
[G] Listen, have you got a moment?
[Fm] Just a moment.
[F] Just a moment.
[A] Oh, hum for [Db] me.
I don't know.
Yeah, baby, I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know, [Ab] but I know you know.
You know, you know, I know.
They've been [Bb] telling me what your reputation is like and I'm willing to take a [Db] chance.
I never had no [D] reputation.
That's all right.
But they tell me that I've tried the [F] best.
But until you ain't [Ab] tried to be.
[Ab] I don't know.
Yes, you do know.
I didn't hang with it long enough.
Well, that's all right.
We like [Db] it around you to be all over, darling.
Don't worry.
Like old [F] wine.
[Db] It makes me feel good just talking to you.
You [Ab] know what?
Can you [Fm] feel that too?
Sure.
Can [Db] I feel it?
I know we got something in common, [Eb] baby.
We got it all over, man.
[Bb] _ Come [Db] here.
Come here.
Come here.
Come here.
Come [Ab] here.
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] I don't know.
Yes, [Ab] you do know.
[Eb] No, I don't know.
[Ab] Yes, you know.
Yes, you know.
Sometimes I have to believe what my papa told me.
Your papa told you what?
Why?
[Db] Well.
Well.
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[Ab] I don't know.
Yes, you do know.
Whatever you don't know, I don't need to be [Eb] shown.
You don't need to be shown.
No, baby.
I'll take this.
I'll take what you just gave me.
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