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Ain't She Sweet
Old-time jazz country; Tin Pan Alley song, widely known
ARTIST: Music by Milton Ager, Lyrics by Jack Yellen Written 1927
CATEGORY: Tin Pan Alley, Blues and Jazz Songs DATE: 1927
RECORDING INFO: *This song was first recorded in 1927 as a piano tune by Frank Banta. Fiddlin' Bob Larkin 1928; Beatles 1961; Frank Sinatra 1962;
RELATED TO: Corrine Corrina
SOURCES: Honking Duck;
NOTES: Ain't She Sweet is a 1927 tin pan alley piece (music by Milton Ager, lyrics by Jack Yellen; original artist Ben Bernie ) adapted by Fiddlin Bob Larkin to the chords and melody of Cindy.
"Ain't She Sweet" is a song composed by Milton Ager (music) and Jack Yellen (lyrics) and published in 1927 by Edwin H. Morris & Co., Inc./Warner Bros., Inc. It became popular in the first half of the twentieth century, one of the smash hit songs that 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 membership in the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Milton Ager wrote "Ain't She Sweet" for his daughter Shana Ager, who later grew up and became Shana Alexander, a political commentator.
"Ain't She Sweet" was also performed by the Beatles; recorded in 1961 with Pete Best on drums, and Bernard Purdie for drum overdubs, produced by Bert Kaempfert, released in 1964.
Ain't She Sweet
Words & Music by Jack Yellen & Milton Ager, 1927
Recorded by Frank Sinatra, 1962*
G6 Cm7-5 D9 D7 G6 Cm7-5 D9 D7
Ain't she sweet? See her walking down the street?
G B7 E E7 A7 D7 G D7
Now I ask you very confidentially, ain't she sweet?
G6 Cm7-5 D9 D7 G6 Cm7-5 D9 D7
Ain't she nice? Look her over once or twice.
G B7 E E7 A7 D7 G
Now I ask you very confidentially, ain't she nice?
Bridge:
GM7 G7 C C/B Am7 Edim G Am7 G
Just cast an eye in her direction --
GM7 G7 C C/B Am7 Edim G Gdim Am7 D7
Oh me, oh my, ain't that perfection?
G6 Cm7-5 D9 D7 G6 Cm7-5 D9 D7
I re - peat, don't you think she's kind of sweet?
G B7 E E7 A7 D7 G
Now I ask you very confidentially, ain't she sweet?
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