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.
WALKING ON THE MOON
THE POLICE
SONGWRITER: GORDON SUMNER
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: REGGATTA THE BLANC
LABEL: A & M RECORDS
GENRE: REGGAE ROCK
YEAR: 1979

"Walking on the Moon" is a song by English rock band The Police, released as the second single from their second studio album, Reggatta de Blanc (1979). The song was written by the band's lead vocalist and bassist Sting when he was drunk. It went on to become a number one UK hit for the band.

Giant steps are what you take
Walking on the moon
I hope my legs don't break
Walking on the moon
We could walk forever
Walking on the moon
We could live together
Walking on, walking on the moon

Walking back from your house
Walking on the moon
Walking back from your house
Walking on the moon
Feet they hardly touch the ground
Walking on the moon
My feet don't hardly make no sound
Walking on, walking on the moon

Some may say
I'm wishing my days away
No way
And if it's the price I pay
Some say
Tomorrow's another day
You stay
I may as well play

Giant steps are what you take
Walking on the moon
I hope my legs don't break
Walking on the moon
We could walk forever
Walking on the moon
We could be together
Walking on, walking on the moon

Some may say
I'm wishing my days away
No way
And if it's the price I pay
Some say
Tomorrow's another day
You stay
I may as well play


Keep it up, keep it up[ad infinitum]
LIKE A BIRD ON THE WIRE
LEONARD COHEN
SONGWRITERS: LEONARD COHEN
COUNTRY: CANADA
ALBUM: SONGS FROM A ROOM
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK ROCK
YEAR: 1969

"Bird on the Wire" is one of Leonard Cohen's signature songs. It was recorded 26 September 1968 in Nashville and included on his 1969 album Songs from a Room. A May 1968 recording produced by David Crosby, entitled "Like a Bird", was added to the 2007 remastered CD. Judy Collins was the first to release the song on her 1968 album Who Knows Where the Time Goes.
In the 1960s, Cohen lived on the Greek island Hydra with his girlfriend Marianne Ihlen, the woman depicted on the back cover of Songs from a Room. She has related how she helped him out of a depression by handing him his guitar, whereupon he began composing "Bird on the Wire" – inspired by a bird sitting on one of Hydra's recently installed phone wires, followed by memories of wet island nights. He finished it in a Hollywood motel.
Cohen has described "Bird on the Wire" as a simple country song, and the first recording, by Judy Collins, was indeed done in a country setting. He later made various minor changes, such as the modifications present on Cohen Live. Different renditions are included on all of his live albums. On occasion he also performed Serge Lama's French version, "Vivre tout seul", in concert.
In the sleevenotes to a 2007 rerelease of Songs From A Room the song was described as "simultaneously a prayer and an anthem, a kind of bohemian 'My Way'.
Like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
Like a worm on a hook,
like a knight from some old fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee.
If I, if I have been unkind,
I hope that you can just let it go by.
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you.
Like a baby, stillborn,
like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
But I swear by this song
and by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to three.
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch,
he said to me, "You must not ask for so much."
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
she cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"

Oh like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir

I have tried in my way to be free.
NO NORTE DA SAUDADE
GILBERTO GIL
COMPOSITORES: GILBERTO GIL; MOACYR ALBUQUERQUE & PERINHO SANTANA
PAÍS: BRASIL
ÁLBUM: REFAVELA
GRAVADORA: WARNER MUSIC
GÊNERO: M.P.B.
ANO: 1977

Refavela é um álbum de 1977 do cantor, compositor e músico Gilberto Gil, pelo selo Phonogram, da trilogia RE, que se refere aos álbuns: Refazenda, Refavela e Realce.

Logo cedo, pé na estrada
Pra não ter porém
Pra não ter noite passada
Pra não ter ninguém
Atrás
Mais ninguém
Vou pra quem
Vai me ver noutra cidade
No norte da saudade, que eu vou ver meu bem
Meu bem, meu bem
Vai me ver noutra cidade
No norte da saudade, que eu vou ver meu bem

Meu bem, meu bem