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Why Don't You Do Right by Peggy Lee
Why Don't You Do Right
Intro: | Dm Dm/C | Bb13 A7+5 | Play four times
Verse: | Dm Dm/C | Bb13 A7+5 | Dm Dm/C | Bb13 A7+5|
| Gm7 | Bb13 A7+5 | Dm Dm7 | Dm6 Dm7 |
| Bb13 | A7+5 C#° | Dm Dm/C | Bb13 A7+5|
This is the basic layout of the song, play the intro once between every verse.
Chords:
Dm: X57765
Dm/C: 8X776X
Bb13: 6X678X
A7+5: 5X566X
Gm7: 353333
Dm7: X57565
Dm6: X5X465
C#°: X4535X
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version 2
Standard Tuning
This version of the song sound pretty good if you can get the good rythm.
Dm A# A
You had plenty money, 1922
Dm A# A
You let other women make a fool of you
Gm Dm
Why don't you do right, like some other men do?
Gm A A# C#7 Dm A# A
Get out of here and get me some money too
Dm A# A
You're sittin' there and wonderin' what it's all about
Dm A# A
You ain't got no money, they will put you out
Gm Dm
Why don't you do right, like some other men do?
Gm A A# C#7 Dm A# A
Get out of here and get me some money too
Dm A# A
If you had prepared twenty years ago
Dm A# A
You wouldn't be a-wanderin' from door to door
Gm Dm
Why don't you do right, like some other men do?
Gm A A# C#7 Dm A# A
Get out of here and get me some money too
Dm Dm A# A
Dm Dm A# A
Gm Dm
Gm A A# C#7
Dm Dm A# A
Dm A# A
I fell for your jivin' and I took you in
Dm A# A
Now all you got to offer me's a drink of gin
Gm Dm
Why don't you do right, like some other men do?
Gm A A# C#7 Dm A# A
Get out of here and get me some money too
Dm A# A Dm
Why don't you do right, like some other men do?
A# A Dm...
Like some other men do
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version 3
Standard tuning
This is similar to another set of chords I found online, but they were missing a couple,
I decided to give it a shot. :)
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
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 money 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
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 money 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 money too.
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