sentences:  It has a thirty-two-bar form (AABA) at a slow-to-moderate tempo.Waller said the song was written while "lodging" in prison (for an alimony violation), and that is why he was not "misbehaving".The song was first performed at the premiere of "Connie's Hot Chocolates" in Harlem at Connie's Inn as an opening song by Paul Bass and Margaret Simms, and repeated later in the musical by Russell Wooding's "Hallelujah Singers".