{"id":64,"date":"2021-05-10T01:22:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T01:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=64"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:03:00","slug":"aint-she-sweet-old-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/aint-she-sweet-old-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Ain&#8217;t She Sweet (Old Standard)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 900;\">Key of A\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea79af1bd963069727296' value='69ea79af1bd963069727296'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea79af1bd963069727296' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea79af1bd963069727296' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea79af1bd963069727296' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea79af1bd963069727296' ><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-weight: 900\">Ain&#8217;t She Sweet is a song composed by Milton Ager, with lyrics by Jack Yellen. It was published in 1927 by Edwin H. Morris &amp; Co. Inc. &amp; Warner Bros. It became popular in the first half of the 20th century and typified the Roaring Twenties. Like Happy Days Are Here Again (1929), it became a Tin Pan Alley standard. Both Ager and Yellen were elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame.<br \/>\nMilton Ager wrote Ain&#8217;t She Sweet for his daughter Shana Ager, who in her adult life was known as the political commentator Shana Alexander.<br \/>\nA version of this song was re-popularized in the 60&#8217;s by the Beatles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-weight: 900\"><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Mandatory Intro C * &#8211; First note HIGH E<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-weight: 900;\">[Chorus 1] <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-weight: 900;\">Oh [F] ain&#8217;t [Fm] she [C] sweet,<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">see her [F] walking [Fm] down that [C] street.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Yes I [F] ask you [A] very [D] confidentially:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">[G] ain&#8217;t [C] she [F] sweet? [C]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">[Chorus 2]<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Oh [F] ain&#8217;t [Fm] she [C] nice,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">well look her [F] over [Fm] once or [C] twice.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Yes I [F] ask you [A] very [D] confidentially:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">[G] ain&#8217;t [C] she [F] nice?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">[Reprise]<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Just cast an [A#] eye, in her [F] direction.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Oh me oh [A#] my, ain&#8217;t that [C] perfection?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">[Chorus 3]<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Oh [F] I re-[Fm]-peat [C]<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">don&#8217;t you [F] think that&#8217;s [Fm] kind of [C] neat?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Yes I [F] ask you [A] very [D] confidentially:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">[G] ain&#8217;t [C] she [F] sweet?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">[Solo] [A#] [F] [A#] [C] *<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">(repeat Chord Forms respectively)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Repeat one time from the top&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-weight: 900;\">(Outro) Yes I [F] ask you [A] very [D] confidentially:\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-weight: 900;\">[G] ain&#8217;t [C] she [F] sweet?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key of A\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mandatory Intro C * &#8211; First note HIGH E [Chorus 1] Oh [F] ain&#8217;t [Fm] she [C] sweet, see her [F] walking [Fm] down that [C] street. Yes I [F] ask you [A] very [D] confidentially: [G] ain&#8217;t [C] she [F] sweet? [C] [Chorus 2] Oh [F] &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/aint-she-sweet-old-standard\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ain&#8217;t She Sweet (Old Standard)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,126,58,265,13,116,117,115,68,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-beatles","category-best-songs","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor","category-love-songs","category-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27520,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/27520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}