Saturday, September 13, 2014

Why Don't You Do Right -Who Framed Roger Rabbit

I should first start off by saying that while this song is featured in the 1988 movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which is where I first heard it, this song is actually a classic blues standard dating back to 1936. This slow, jazzy, bluesy tune has been sung by the likes of Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald, but it's perhaps more known by the movie rendition, sung by Amy Irving. In the movie, it is with this song that we are first introduced to the anatomically baffling character that is Jessica Rabbit. I invite you to sing and give it your own spin!
Here are the lyrics:


You had plenty of money 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.
Now 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?
Here's that scene from the movie:


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