WHY DON'T YOU DO RIGHT?
(Joe McCoy)

Lil Green - 1941
Kay Kyser & His Orch. (vocal: Julie Conway) - 1941
Benny Goodman & His Orch. (vocal: Peggy Lee) - 1942
Ella Fitzgerald - 1953
Mike Gordon - 1954
Ruth Brown - 1958
Barbara Dane - 1959
Julie London - 1961
Della Reese - 1961
Pat Bowie - 1965
Fats Domino - 1966
Linda Hopkins - 1982
LaVern Baker - 1991
Sinéad O'Connor - 1992
Kiri Te Kanawa - 1992
Terry Blaine - 1997
Kim Cresswell (feat. in the Jazz Musical "The Slow Drag") - 1997
Connie Evingson - 1999
Shirley Horn - 2000

Also recorded by:
Teresa Brewer; Benny Carter; Nora Lee King; Julie London;
Herbie Mann; Glenn Miller; Nichelle Nicholls; Johnny Otis;
Nino Tempo & April Stevens; Vicki Victoria:... and others.



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' down 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 wanderin' now 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

(Orchestral Break)

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


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LATER, ALTERNATE 1st VERSE:

You had plenty money, Nineteen-Forty-One
You lost it all and then away did run
Why don't you do right like some other men do?
Get out of here and get me some money too