Why Don't You Do Right

Words & Music by Joe McCoy, 1942
Recorded by Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman, 1943


        Em     D                 C       B7  
You had plenty money in nineteen twenty-two

    Em           D          C       B7
You let other women make a fool of you

          C       Am7  C          B7  B7/F# Em
Why don't you do right like some other men  do?

C          Am7   B7            B7/F#      Em 
Get out of here,    get me some mon - ey too.
  

       Em             D                 C     B7
You're sittin' down wonderin' what it's all about 

    Em            D               C       B7
You ain't got no money that will put you out 
  
C       Am7  C          B7  B7/F# Em
Why don't you do right like some other men  do?

C          Am7   B7            B7/F#      Em 
Get out of here,    get me some mon - ey too.


   Em          D            C     B7
If you had prepared twenty years ago 

    Em           D                 C       B7
You wouldn't be wanderin' now from door to door
 
C       Am7  C          B7  B7/F# Em
Why don't you do right like some other men  do?

C          Am7   B7            B7/F#      Em 
Get out of here,    get me some mon - ey too.

Thanks to Alolfo Aladro for his research and transcription of the version on which this chart is based. I made changes based on the Peggy Lee version I found, so any errors introduced are most likely mine.

The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.