YOU'VE GOT TO DO BETTER
(Hudson Whittaker (Tampa Red))

Now, I work all day and I cry all night.
Woman, you know you ain't treating me right.
CHO: You've got to do better. You've got to do better.
You've got to do better or let another mama come in.

Now, I give you everything I could beg or steal,
But can't come home and get a decent meal. CHO.

You come home every night drunk and out your head.
I even have to bathe you and put you to bed. CHO.

Now, my food ain't fitting and my house ain't clean.
You're the dirtiest old woman I've ever seen. CHO.

Now, the food you cook will make a hound-dog sick.
Woman, I'd like to call you an old no-good WELL! CHO.

[As recorded by Tampa Red, 1934. JTD]