Gotta Be This Or That

Words & Music by Sunny Skylar
Recorded by Benny Goodman, 1945 (#2)


D9     D6/9   DM7   D6/9     D9
If you ain't wrong, you're right;

B7         B7/9        B7
If it ain't day, it's night;

G      G/F#  E7/9  E7  Gm7
If you ain't sure, you might --

G/B     A7sus4 A7  D
Gotta be this  or that.


D9    D6/9  DM7 D6/9   D9
If it ain't dry, it's wet;

B7          B7/9       B7
If you ain't got, you get;

G     G/F#  E7/9   E7   Gm7
If it ain't gross, it's net --

G/B     A7sus4 A7  D
Gotta be this  or that.



Bridge:

  Am7       D7   Am7        D7
If it ain't sis, you can't miss,

     G     Cdim      G6
It's got to be your brother;

E7        B7       E7   Cdim
Can't you see it's gotta be

Em7    G/B    A7sus4 A7
One way or the oth - er?


D9    D6/9  DM7  D6/9   D9
If it ain't full, it's blank;

B7           B7/9       B7
If you don't spend, you bank;

G     G/F#  E7/9 E7    Gm7
If it ain't Dee, it's Frank --

G/B     A7sus4 A7  D
Gotta be this  or that.




 
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