Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You?

Words & Music by Don Redman & Andy Razaf
Recorded by Peggy Lee, 1953*


 G             F           Fdim        A7
Love makes me treat you the way that I do --

F          G               A   G#7   C#7
Gee baby, ain't I good to you?


        G                F           
There's nothing in this world too good

      Fdim              A7
For a girl so good and true.

F          G               A   G#7
Gee baby, ain't I good to you?


Bridge:

D9           Bm7          Dm6        A   D9       A  A7
Bought you a fur coat for Christmas,   a diamond ring,

  D9           Bm7  Dm6  A    D9     A   A7
A big Cadillac car, and ev' - ry - thing.


 G             F           C#m7-5      F#7
What makes me treat you the way that I do?

D9         E7     D9      F#7  Gdim  F#7
Gee baby, ain't I good to you?

D9         E7     Fdim     A
Gee baby, ain't I good to you?

*There are several good versions of this one that I listened to in developing this chart - among them Ella Fitzgerald's from 1956, Nat King Cole's from 1942 and Diana Krall's from 1995.

The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.