Etta James
(I Don’t Need Nobody to Tell Me) How to Treat My Man
Woah, I don’t need nobody
To tell me how to treat my man
Woah, you haven’t got one of your own
So how can you understand?
Oh, tend to your business and leave mine alone
Then it’s my own fault if, if something goes wrong
I don’t need nobody
To tell me how to treat my man

Oh, don’t want your coming around
Telling me that I’m doing wrong, no no
Oh, get on out of my face, go on child
And leave me alone now, oh now now now
What makes you think that what you say is the truth?
When every man you get always cuts you loose
I don’t need nobody
To tell me how to treat my man

Oh, no no no
[Guitar solo]

Oh ho now, now now
You say that you know just what to do
To make my man prove his love is true
Now I don’t believe you, something gotta be wrong
If you knew so much, you’d have a man of your own
I don’t need nobody
To tell me how to treat my man, no oh no
You haven’t got one of your own
So how can you understand now, oh oh now
All I have to do to make my man act right, child
Hug him, kiss him, squeeze him every night
I don’t need nobody
To tell me how to treat my man

Oh, I don’t need nobody
Woah, I don’t want nobody
Oh, tellin’ me this and that
Get on out of my face, go on child
Don’t be tellin’ me what to do about my man
Oh, no no no no