Jag försökte bena ut S.I. Hayakawas analys av kärlekens roll i bluestexterna, men gav upp. Jag kunde väl konstatera att slutsatsen han drar är att kärleken beskrivs på ett mer realistiskt sätt inom bluesen än inom "the popular song genre".
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"Why Don't You Do Right?" (Ursprungligen inspelad som "Weed Smoker's Dream") är en amerikansk blues- och jazzinfluerad popsång skriven av Joseph "Kansas Joe" McCoy 1936. Den anses vara en sångklassiker för kvinnliga bluessångerskor och har blivit en standard.
Why don't you do right, performed by Peggy Lee
(Lyrics & Music: Kansas Joe McCoy. Single by Benny Goodman & Peggy Lee. Columbia, 1942.)
You had a plenty 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 and get me some money too?
You're sitting down wondering what it's all about
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 and get me some money too?
If you had prepared twenty 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 and get me some money too?
I fell for you jiving and I took you in
Now all you've got to offer me is a drink of gin
Why don't you do right
Like some other men do?
Get out of here and get me some money too?
Why don't you do right
Like some other men do?
Like some other men do?
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Det går så långt att tre år senare skriver Ruth Lowe en låt om en kvinna som är beredd att ge upp kärleken helt.
Den mest framgångsrika och mest kända versionen av den låten spelades in av Tommy Dorsey och hans orkester, med sång av Frank Sinatra och The Pied Pipers. I nedanstående spellista är det Rebecca Ferguson som är vokalissa.
I'll never smile again, performed by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra
(Lyrics & Music: Ruth Lowe. Victor Company, 1940.)
I'll never smile again
Until I smile at you
I'll never laugh again
What good would it do
For tears would fill my eyes
My heart would realize
That our romance is true
I'll never love again
I'm so in love with you
I'll never thrill again
To somebody new
Within my heart
I know I will never start
To smile again
Until I smile at you
Within my heart
I know I will never start
To smile again
Until I smile at you
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