YOU GOTTA BE GOOD TO ME
(Music: Vincent Rose / Lyrics: Al Lewis & Joe Young)


Lou Gold & His Orch. (vocal: Annette Hanshaw) - 1927
Manhattan Dance Makers - 1928
B. F. Goodrich Silvertown Cord Orch. (vocal: Joseph M. Knecht) - 1928
The Vagabonds - 1928





Let me inroduce to you 
Elmer Gantry number two
Good advice was all he gave away

Ev'ry time he met a peach
Baby, how that boy could preach
Elmer used to win 'em when he'd say

You can't go out, you must stay in
The bad old world is full of sin 
You gotta be good, you gotta be good to me

I'll take the key and lock the door
You know that I've been fooled before
So, you gotta be good, you gotta be good to me

Don't share your lips and eyes with all those others
Save all your alibis, I know they're not you brothers

I may look dumb, but I'm no fool
You'll get your hymns at Sunday School
And you gotta be good, you gotta be good to me

This is just the Gospel truth
Elmer was the flaming youth
Owned a road map straight to Paradise

He could walk an Eskimo
For a half a block or so
And she'd melt away with this advice

Now Jack and Jill went up the hill
But you'll stay here 'cause I'm no' sill'
You gotta be good, you gotta be good to me

And Mary had a little lamb
(Unknown Line)
(Unknown Line)

I may be wrong, I may be right
But right or wrong, you're home tonight
You gotta be good, you gotta be good to me


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As recorded by ANNETTE HANSHAW with
LEW GOLD'S ORCH., December 1st 1927:


You can't go out, you must stay in
The bad old world is full of sin 
You gotta be good, you gotta be good to me

I'll take the key and lock the door
You know that I've been fooled before
So, you gotta be good, you gotta be good to me

Don't share your lips and eyes with all those others
Save all your alibis, I know they're not your brothers

I may look dumb, but I'm no fool
You'll get your hymns at Sunday School
And you gotta be good, you gotta be good to me






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - July 2014)