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Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby

1944 Louis Jordan song, released as the B-side of a single with "G.I. Jive"

By Melissa IngoldsbyPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby
Photo by Chris Nguyen on Unsplash

we’re together in the red tundra, no, no, don’t freeze baby

I got you a sweater

I might have to change the weather,

For you

Baby Blue, Moonlight Moon-Milk Eyes,

Whoa,

I gotta slumber,

Yea,

I think you love me too, baby,

But sometimes I feel bad,

Stuck in frozen subsoil, permanently

I gotta catch you up in the high seas,

I wanna see us free

I just need you so damn bad, baby,

Change the moon’s tide

And I’ll take you

For a ride, sweetie pie,

Sweet Swamp Thing, I wanna read your yellow story

Like before,

Cause, oh, that’s it

You’re so sweet and beautiful

My little baby,

Be all mine, I got the time

To do what you need me to do,

Yea,

We’re here for a small window of space

But you, my cutie pie baby doll

You can’t be replaced,

So

I’ll ask you, with grace:

Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?

Answer me now before a man faints.

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About the Creator

Melissa Ingoldsby

My work:

Patheos,

The Job, The Space Between Us, Green,

The Unlikely Bounty, Straight Love, The Heart Factory, The Half Paper Moon, I am Bexley and Atonement by JMS Books

Silent Bites by Eukalypto

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