JULIE LONDON - WHY DON'T YOU DO RIGHT

WHY DON'T YOU DO RIGHT

JULIE LONDON

SONGWRITER: JOE MCCOY

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: WHATEVER JULIE WANTS

LABEL: DECCA

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1961

"Why Don't You Do Right?" (originally recorded as "Weed Smoker's Dream") is an American blues – and jazz-influenced pop song written by Joseph "Kansas Joe" McCoy in 1936. A twelve-bar minor key blues with a few chord substitutions, it is considered a classic "woman's blues" song and has become a standard.

You had plenty money, 1922

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' down 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.