Bessie Smith - Do Your Duty - 78rpm Version Lyrics

Lyrics Do Your Duty - 78rpm Version - Bessie Smith




If I call three times a day, baby
Come and drive my blues away
When you come, be ready to play
Do your duty
If you want to have some luck
Give your baby your last buck
Don't come quackin' like a duck
Do your duty
I heard you say you didn't love me, baby
Yesterday at Mrs. Brown's
I don't believe a word she said
She's the loudest woman in town, oh babe
When I need attention at home
I'll just call you on the telephone
Come yourself, don't send your friend Jones
Do your duty
If my radiator gets too hot
Cool it off in a lots of spot
Give me all the service you've got
Do your duty
If you don't know what it's all about
Don't stand around my house and pout
Do you catch your mama kippin' out
Do your duty
As you make your own bad heart
That's the way love
You bunk out, I'm sleepin' by myself
You're too dumb to realise, oh babe
I'm not tryin' to make you feel blue
I'm not satisfied with the way that you do
I've got to help you find somebody to
Do your duty



Writer(s): Wesley A. Wilson


Bessie Smith - The Columbia and Victor Sessions, Vol. 1
Album The Columbia and Victor Sessions, Vol. 1
date of release
10-08-2018

1 When I Grow Too Old to Dream (78rpm Version)
2 Chasing Shadows (Alternate Take)
3 Chasing Shadows (78rpm Version)
4 Mutiny in the Parlor
5 Swing Is Here
6 I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music
7 I'm Gonna Clap My Hands
8 I'll Never Say Never Again (78rpm Version)
9 Get Rhythm In Your Feet (78rpm Version)
10 Blue Interlude - 78rpm Version
11 I Never Knew - Alternate Take
12 I Never Knew - 78rpm Version
13 Once Upon a Time - 78rpm Version
14 Krazy Kapers - 78rpm Version
15 Do Your Duty - 78rpm Version
16 I'm Down In the Dumps - 78rpm Version
17 (Lookie, Lookie, Lookie) Here Comes Cookie - 78rpm Version
18 When the Robin Sings His Song - 78rpm Version
19 Rosetta (78rpm Version)
20 Twenty-Four Hours a Day (Take 1)
21 Yankee Doodle Never Went to Town (Take 1)
22 Eeny Meeny Meiny Mo (Take 1)
23 Christopher Columbus (78rpm Version)
24 Grand Terrace Swing (78rpm Version)
25 Blue Lou (78rpm Version)
26 Stealin' Apples (78rpm Version)
27 Moonrise On the Lowlands
28 I'll Always Be In Love With You
29 Jangled Nerves
30 Mary Had A Little Lamb
31 Too Good To Be True (78rpm Version)
32 Warmin' Up (78rpm Version)
33 Blues In C-Sharp Minor (78rpm Version)
34 Where There's You There's Me
35 Do You Or Don't You Love Me?
36 Mary Had a Little Lamb (78rpm Version)
37 Shoe Shine Boy
38 Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)
39 Knock, Knock Who's There?
40 Knock, Knock, Who's There? (Alternate Take)
41 You Can Depend On Me
42 Slummin' On Park Avenue (78rpm Version)
43 Slummin' On Park Avenue (Alternate Take)
44 Rhythm of the Tambourine (78rpm Version)
45 Back In Your Own Backyard (78rpm Version)
46 Rose Room (78rpm Version)
47 Great Ceasar's Ghost (78rpm Version)




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