Ain't That Just Like a Woman (They'll Do It Every Time)

"Ain't That Just Like a Woman (They'll Do it Every Time)" is a 1946 song by Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five. The song went to number one on the R&B Jukebox chart for two weeks and peaked at number seventeen on the pop chart.^[1] The lyrics are credited to Claude Demetrius and Fleecie Moore. The latter was his wife and Jordan himself may have in fact been the co-writer.

The song lists women in history who have tormented men. Looking over this pattern, it recounts that this is typical behaviour, and warns men to watch out. The women mentioned are Eve, Lot's wife, Delilah and Marie Antoinette. One verse refers to Roman emperor Nero in the same vein as the women.

The opening riff reappears as the guitar intro in numerous songs, most notably Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" and The Beach Boys' "Fun, Fun, Fun".

Covers

• B.B. King did a version of the song on his Louis Jordan tribute album Let the Good Times Roll released in 1999.
• Ronnie Hawkins did a version which appears on an unauthorized live album called Science Fiction (1991) or Freak Out or Ladies Man (1987), among other names. All but two of the cuts are The Alice Cooper Band performing at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival on September 13, 1969.^[2]

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