"What More Can A Doormat Do?"

Here is a beautiful co-dependent take of Miss Peggy Lee and the David Barbour Quartet, 1950. From "The Snader Telescriptions". (The first ever movie pictures of live music "Video's") She wrote the lyrics to this song.  She must of had it bad for a bad boy - the story of a torch singers life, or not if we can help it. : )

Watch this, she is so lovely and sad (Jazz women in the music business have it harder than anyone, especially female jazz instrumentalists, even in current days):

Here is my edit of her lyrics:

If he told me that I should steal,

I guess I would, the way I feel,

For this is one thing I know is real,

What more can a doormat do?

And if he told me that I should lie,

I guess at least I'd have to try!

'Cause it's for him I live or die,

What more can a un-empowered woman do?

It's just another story

Of Jim or Bill or Joe,

But if you need to love a man like that,

You've gotta let him Go, Go Go!

If he told me that I should leave,

That's only one thing I can't conceive,

I'd rather give and not receive,

What more can a slave girl do?

If he told me that I should leave,

That's only one thing I can't conceive,

I'd rather give and not receive,

What more can a woman do?

What more can a doormat do?