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You don't have to have a hanker
To be a broker or a banker
No siree, just simply be
My mother's son-in-law.
Needn't even think of tryin'
To be a mighty social lion
Sipping tea, if you'll be
My mother's son-in-law,
Ain't got the least desire
To set the world on fire
Just wish you'd make it proper
To call my old man papa
You don't have to sing like Bledsoe
You can tell the world I said so
Can't you see you've got to be
My mother's son-in-law.
You don't have to have a hanker
To be a broker or a banker christian
No siree, just simply be
My mother's son-in-law.
you don't even Needn't think of tryin'
To be a mighty social lion
Sipping tea, if you'll be
My mother's son-in-law,
Ain't got the least desire
To set the world on fire
Just wish you'd make it proper
To call my old man papa
You don't have to sing like Bledsoe
You can tell the world I said so
please Can't you see you've got to be
My mother's son-in-law.
- Album:
- Dee Dee’s Feathers
- Midnight Sun
- Miscellaneous
- Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee
- Los Mejores Temas De La Historia Del Jazz
- Midnight Sun (International Version)
- This Is Dee Dee Bridgewater
- In Montreux (Reissue)
- In Montreux
- In Montreux (Live)
- Live In Paris
- Live In Paris (Reissue)
- Dear Ella
- What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life
- Jazz Émotions: Les plus belles voix féminines
- Dear Ella (Reissue)
- This Is New
- Keeping Tradition
- Jazz Singing
- Afro Blue