A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND
(Eddie Green)

Eddie Green - 1918
Marion Harris - 1919
Wilbur C. Sweatman's Jazz Orchestra - 1919
Bessie Smith - 1927
Viola McCoy - 1927
Eddie Condon & His Band - 1940
Butch Stone - 1942
Frank Sinatra - 1951
George Lewis - 1953
Big Maybelle - 1956
Brenda Lee - 1959
Also recorded by: Trinity; Di Anne Price; Bix Beiderbecke; Fats Waller; Rosemary Clooney; Les Brown; 
Champion Jack Dupree; Barbra Streisand; Frances Faye; Hank Thompson; Lizzie Miles; Louis Prima; 
Carol Channing; Nancy Wilson; Ralph Sutton; Juanita Hall; Kid Ory; Judith Durham; Dorothy Loudon; 
Bob Wills.


MY HEART’S SAD AND I AM FORLORN, 
MY MAN’S TREATING ME MEAN, 
I REGRET THE DAY THAT I WAS BORN 
AND THAT MAN OF MINE I’VE NEVER SEEN, 
MY HAPPINESS, IT NEVER LASTS A DAY, 
MY HEART IS ALMOST BREAKING WHILE I SAY: 

A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND, 
YOU ALWAYS GET THE OTHER KIND, 
JUST WHEN YOU THINK THAT HE IS YOUR PAL, 
YOU LOOK FOR HIM AND FIND HIM FOOLING ‘ROUND SOME OTHER GAL, 
THEN YOU RAVE, YOU EVEN CRAVE, 
TO SEE HIM LAYING IN HIS GRAVE, 
SO, IF YOUR MAN IS NICE, TAKE MY ADVICE, 
AND HUG HIM IN THE MORNING, KISS HIM EV’RY NIGHT, 
GIVE HIM PLENTY LOVIN’, TREAT HIM RIGHT, 
FOR A GOOD MAN NOW-A-DAYS IS HARD TO FIND. 

A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND, 
YOU ALWAYS GET THE OTHER KIND, 
JUST WHEN YOU THINK THAT HE IS YOUR PAL, 
YOU LOOK FOR HIM AND FIND HIM FOOLING ‘ROUND SOME OTHER GAL, 
THEN YOU RAVE, YOU EVEN CRAVE, 
TO SEE HIM LAYING IN HIS GRAVE, 
SO, IF YOUR MAN IS NICE, TAKE MY ADVICE, 
AND HUG HIM IN THE MORNING, KISS HIM EV’RY NIGHT, 
GIVE HIM PLENTY LOVIN’, TREAT HIM RIGHT, 
FOR A GOOD MAN NOW-A-DAYS IS HARD TO FIND.