You have to be in my age bracket to remember this comical song, but I could not resist the opportunity to use that title even though it was grammatically incorrect.  During the hundreds of years after Joshua before God finally relented and gave Israel a king, He used "judges" to manage the disobedient people.  The last verse lets us know how that period went.  "... all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes " 

Bible References:  Judges 3 -  21: 25