The Ellington band played the song

It Don't Mean A Thing Duke Ellington & Irving Mills

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continuously over the years. (c) 1932
Recorded by Ella Fitzgerald in '57, '67', '74.
(If It Ain't Got That Swing)
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It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing,
don't mean a thing, all you got to do is swing,

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} Doo wah, doo wah, doo wah, doo wah, doo wah,

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doo wah, doo wah, doo wah. It wah. It

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makes no dif - f'rence if it's sweet or hot; just

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give that rhy - thm ev - 'ry - thing you got. It

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don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing,

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Doo wah, doo wah, doo wah, doo wah, doo wah, doo wah, doo wah, doo wah. ¶Fine®