Artista: Billie Holiday
Canzone: Ain’t Nobody’s Business
Ain’t Nobody’s Business
by Porter Grainger and Everett Robbins
There ain’t nothing I can do, or nothing I can say,
Some folks will criticize me.
So I’m gonna do just what I want to anyway,
And don’t care if you all despise me.
If I should take a notion
To jump into the ocean,
It ain’t nobody’s business if I do.
If I go to church on Sunday
And I shimmy down on Monday,
It ain’t nobody’s business if I do.
And if my friend ain’t got no money
And I say, “All right, take all of mine honey,”
It ain’t nobody’s business if I do.
If I lend her my last nickel
And it leaves me in a pickle,
It ain’t nobody’s business if I do.
I would rather my gal would hit me
Than to haul right up and quit me.
It ain’t nobody’s business if I do.
I know that she won’t call no copper
If she gets beat up by her poppa.
It ain’t nobody’s business if I do, Lord no.
Well, it ain’t nobody’s business if I do.
Video
Billie Holiday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAbMlxUhjTs
Bessy Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cngx_KKiWE
Otis Spann
Freddie King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PURIZ388xvE
Eric Clapton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWVsptT3gZ8
Ain’t Nobody’s Business o Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness if I Do è un vaudeville blues di otto battute che divenne presto uno standard blues. E ‘stato scritto nel 1920 dal pianista Porter Grainger, che era stato accompagnatore di Bessie Smith, e Everett Robbins. Il brano è stato registrato 19 ottobre 1922 da Anna Meyer con l’Original Memphis Five. (Wikipedia)