Why Can’t You Behave

WHY CAN’T YOU BEHAVE
By: Cole Porter
From: “Kiss Me, Kate”
Ella Fitzgerald
Key: Eb

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Why can't you be-have?
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Oh, why can't you be-have?
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Af-ter all the things you told me
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And the prom-is-es that you gave,
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Oh, why can't you be-have?
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Why can't you be good?
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And do just as you should?
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Won't you turn that new leaf o-ver
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So your ba-by can be your slave?
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Oh, why can't you be-have?

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There's a farm I know near my old home town,
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Where we two can go and try set-tlin' down.
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There I'll care for you for-ev-er,
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'Cause you're all in the world I crave.
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But, why can't you be-have?