AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'
From the musical comedy "Hot Chocolates"
& the Broadway musical "Ain't Misbehavin'"
(Harry Brooks / Andy Razaf / Fats Waller)
Louis Armstrong - 1929
Also recorded by: Ray Anthony; Chet Atkins; Winifred Atwell;
Kenny Baker; Count Basie; Bix Beiderbecke; Earl Bostic;
Teresa Brewer; Elkie Brooks; Dave Brubeck; Tommy Bruce;
George Burns; Carol Channing; Ray Charles; King Cole Trio;
Nat King Cole; Bing Crosby; Vic Damone; Billy Daniels;
Miles Davis; Jimmy Dorsey & his Orch.; Tommy Dorsey & his Orch.;
Judith Durham; Duke Ellington; Ruth Etting; Ella Fitzgerald;
Helen Forrest; Erroll Garner; Dizzy Gillespie; Nat Gonella;
Benny Goodman; Stephane Grappelli; Bobby Hackett;
Bill Haley & his Comets; Luionel Hampton; Lee Hazlewood;
Ted Heath; Woody Herman; Earl Hines; Al Hirt; Billie Holiday;
Leslie Hutchinson; Jack Hylton; Harry James & his Orch.;
Joni James; Eartha Kitt; Gene Krupa; Cleo Laine; Frankie Laine;
Carmen McCrae; George Melly; The Mills Brothers;
The Modernaires; Jelly Roll Morton; Anita O'Day; Kid Ory;
Oscar Peterson; André Previn; Johnnie Ray; Django Reinhardt;
Burt Reynolds; Buddy Rich; Bill (Bojangles) Robinson;
Jane Russell; Zoot Sims; Kay Starr; Maxine Sullivan; Art Tatum;
Jack Teagarden; Sarah Vaughan; Fats Waller; Dinah Washington;
Paul Whiteman Orch.; Hank Williams Jr.; ..... and many more.
No one to talk with
All by myself
No one to walk with
But I'm happy on the shelf
Ain't misbehavin'
I'm savin' my love for you
I know for certain
The one I love
I'm through with flirtin'
It's just you I'm thinkin' of
Ain't misbehavin'
I'm savin' my love for you
Like Jack Horner
In the corner
Don't go nowhere
What do I care?
Your kisses are worth waitin' for
Believe me
I don't stay out late
Don't care to go
I'm home about eight
Just me and my radio
Ain't misbehavin'
I'm savin' my love for you
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as rec by Maxine Sullivan w Charlie Shavers
Buster Bailey Jerome Richardson Dick Hyman
Wendell Marshall & Ossie Johnson
August 20th 1956 New York
Channel Four!
channel Two!
What a bore!
Where are you?
I'm a lonesome Jill without a Jack
'Cause the TV set just won't talk back!
So I've a-no one to walk with,
All by myself,
No one to talk with
But I'm stayin' on the shelf.
Ain't misbehavin',
Savin' my love for you.
I know for certain
The one I love,
I'm through with flirtin',
It's just you I'm thinkin' of.
Ain't misbehavin',
I'm savin' my love for you
Like Jack Horner,
In the corner,
Don't go nowhere,
What do I care?
Your kisses are worth waitin' for,
Believe me!
I don't stay out late,
Don't care to go,
I'm home about eight,
Just me and my radio.
Ain't misbehavin',
I'm savin' my love for you.
Though it's a fickle age,
With flirting all the rage,
Here is one bird with self control!
Happy inside my cage,
I know who I love best;
Thumbs down for all the rest,
My love was given heart and soul,
So it can stand the test!
No one to talk with,
All by myself,
No one to walk with
Stayin' on the shelf.
Misbehavin',
Savin' all my love for you.
I know for certain
The one I love,
I'm through with flirtin',
It's just you I'm thinkin' of.
Ain't misbehavin',
Savin' all my love for you
Like Jack Horner,
In the corner,
Don't go nowhere,
What do I care?
Your kisses are worth waitin' for,
Believe me!
I don't stay out late,
Don't care to go,
Home about eight,
Me and my radio.
Ain't misbehavin',
savin' all my love for you.
Channel Nine!
Channel Three!
Bear in mind,
Rescue me
Before I start misbehavin'
'Stead of savin' all my love for you!
(Transcribed by Peter Akers - August 2011)
