Lyr Add: If It Don't Fit Don't Force It

Subject: Lyr Add: IF IT DON'T FIT (DON'T FORCE IT)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 06 Aug 11 - 09:31 PM

You can hear this recording at the Internet Archive:


IF IT DON'T FIT (DON'T FORCE IT)
As sung by Barrel House Annie, 1937.

1. If it don't fit, don't force it,
'Cause you'll make your mama mad.
If it don't fit, don't force it,
'Cause you'd only get in bad.
Changed the lock 'cause you stayed out till four.
Your key didn't fit; you tried to break down the door.
If it don't fit, don't force it,
'Cause you'll make your mama mad.

2. If it don't fit, don't force it,
'Cause you'll make your mama mad.
If it don't fit, don't force it,
'Cause you'd only get in bad.
Now it may stretch; it may not tear at all,
But you'll never back that big mule up in my stall.
If it don't fit, don't force it,
'Cause you'll make your mama mad.

3. If it don't fit, don't force it,
'Cause you'll make your mama mad.
If it don't fit, don't force it,
'Cause you'll only get in bad.
You don't seem to understand my position:
I'll never let you put my works out of commission.
If it don't fit, don't force it,
'Cause you'll make your mama mad, oh, yeah,
'Cause you'll make your mama mad.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: If It Don't Fit Don't Force It
From: GUEST,Doug Saum
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 01:35 PM

Great sound and wise advice on many levels.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: If It Don't Fit Don't Force It
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 22 Jun 25 - 05:20 AM

DON'T FORCE IT IF IT DON'T FIT
(Tune – Traditional)

Don't force it if it don't fit
Got yourself a brand new size
Don't force it if it don't fit
You'll never have to 'pologise.
Now the rooster, when he saw the egg was red –
Went across the street and knocked the peacock dead.
Don't force it if it don't fit
Get yourself a brand new size.

Don't force it if it don't fit
Get yourself a brand new size
Don't force it if it don't fit
You'll never have to 'pologise
Now the monkey, when he saw how the kid was slung
Went and knocked hell out of the Orangatung.
Don't force it if it don't fit
Get yourself a brand new size!

1945. Songs of the Century.


See here: https://archive.org/details/1945songsofthecentury/page/n10/mode/1up?q=%22force+it%22


The Barrelhouse Anne recording above was done in Chicago in 3rd March 1937 ( Wabash Music C-1837-ARC Test ).
It was an unissued test recording. There is a report of it on a Hollywood Hot Shot party record
which I have been unable to verify.