Why Don't You Do Right?

Why Don't You Do Right? is is an American blues- and jazz-influenced pop song – now a standard – written in 1936 by Kansas Joe McCoy. It is a twelve-bar minor key blues form with a few chord substitutes, it is considered a classic "woman's blues" song.

The song was memorably performed in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit by the animated character Jessica Rabbit, at the Ink and Paint Club. Although Kathleen Turner provided the acting voice for the character, the vocal performance of the song is by actress Amy Irving.

Lyrics
You had plenty of money in 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, get me some money too. You're sittin down and wonderin what it's all about. If 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, get me some money too.

Now if you had prepared 20 years ago. You wouldn't be a wanderin now from door to door. Why don't you do right, like some other men do?

Get out of here, get me some money too.

Get out of here, get me some money too.

Why don't you do right, like some other men do?