What 'd I Say est une chanson de Ray Charles improvisée par son auteur en 1959 lors d'un concert dans un club de Milwaukee. Lors de l'enregistrement, la chanson étant trop longue, Atlantic décida de la couper en deux et de faire figurer les deux parties sur chaque face d'un 45 tours simple.
En 2003, cette chanson est classée en 10e position dans le classement des 500 plus grandes chansons de tous les temps du magazine Rolling Stone.

Hey mama, don't you treat me wrong
Come and love your daddy all night long
All right now, hey hey, all right

See the girl with the diamond ring
She knows how to shake that thing
All right now now now, hey hey, hey hey

Tell your mama, tell your pa
I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas
Oh yes, ma'm, you don't do right, don't do right

Aw, play it boy

When you see me in misery
Come on baby, see about me
Now yeah, hey hey, all right, all right, aw play it, boy

When you see me in misery
Come on baby, see about me
Now yeah, hey hey, all right

See the girl with the red dress on
She can do the Birdland all night long

[Chorus 1]
Yeah yeah, what'd I say, all right
Well, tell me what'd I say, yeah
Tell me what'd I say right now [x5]

[Chorus 2] [x3]
And I want to know
Baby I want to know right now

[Breakdown/Verse 2]
Hey, don't quit now! (Come on honey)
Naw, I got, I uh-uh-uh, I'm changing (stop! stop! we'll do it again)
Wait a minute, wait a minute, oh hold it! Hold it! Hold it!
Hey (hey) ho (ho) hey (hey) ho (ho) hey (hey) ho (ho) hey
Oh one more time (just one more time)

[Chorus 3]
Say it one more time right now (just one more time) [x5]

[Verse 3]
Hey (hey) ho (ho) hey (hey) ho (ho) hey (hey) ho (ho) hey
Ah! Make me feel so good (make me feel so good)
Make me feel so good now yeah (make me feel so good)
Woah! Baby (make me feel so good)
Make me feel so good yeah (make me feel so good) [x3]

[Chorus 4]
Awh it's all right (baby it's all right) [x6]

[Chorus 5]
Woah! Shake that thing now (baby shake that thing) [x6]

[Chorus 6]
Woah! I feel all right now yeah (make me feel all right) [x6]