Why Don’t You Do Right (1936)
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(wm) Kansas Joe McCoy (I) 1936 by McCoy and the Harlem Hamfats under the title “The Weed Smoker’s Dream.” (R) 1936 by McCoy again under the title “Why Don’t You Do Now?” (I) 1941 by Lil Green w/ Big Bill Broonzy as “Why Don’t You Do Right?.” (P) 1942 Peggy Lee w/ Benny Goodman, as her first major hit. (R) 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit? by Amy Irving dubbing Jessica Rabbit.
You had plenty money, nineteen twenty-two,
You let other women make a fool of you.
Why don’t you do right, like some other men do?
Get out of here and get me some money too.

You’re sittin’ there and wonderin’ what it’s all about;
You ain’t got no money, they will put you out.
Why don’t you do right, like some other men do?
Get out of here and get me some money too.

If you had prepared twenty years ago,
You wouldn’t be a-wanderin’ from door to door.
Why don’t you do right, like some other men do?
Get out of here and get me some money too,

I fell for your jivin’ and I took you in;
Now all you got to offer me’s a drink of gin.
Why don’t you do right, like some other men do?
Get out of here and get me some money too.

(Why don’t you do right, like some other men do?
Like some other men do.)