HOW DO YOU DO IT THAT WAY ?
Album : The Victoria Spivey Recorded Legacy of The Blues
(Reuben Floyd / Victoria Spivey)

Victoria Spivey (with Louis Armstrong & Zutty Singleton) - 1929


Have you ever had a feeling that someone would come out leadin' you?
If you had it's not so bad unless you found that it is all untrue
Take a good girl to keep her man, some can't do it, others can
I'm no chump but I would jump if I could find someone that's not unlike me too

Oh when the river runs, flowers are bloomin' in May
And if you get good business, how do you do it that way?

Streetwalkin' women, they are happy and gay
But I'm never happy, how do you get that way?

I want a man to be near, because he bring good care
But the men don't like me, they don't seem to care

Now they can come and go, to and fro every day
But I can't make 'em like me, how do you do it that way?

Now if you want somethin' good, you mustn't knock on wood
Just get a good man to look up under your hood

And when the rooster and the hen go to the barn to play
Oh the hen has chickens, how do they do it that way?