This might be one of the saddest songs ever written (and I mean that in more ways than one). And then listen to how Billie Holiday delivers these words. It is heartbreaking.
[Main Entry: heart·break·ing
Pronunciation: -"brA-ki[ng]
Function: adjective
1 a : causing intense sorrow or distress b : extremely trying or difficult
2 : producing an intense emotional reaction or response
- heart·break·ing·ly /-ki[ng]-lE/ adverb]
There ain't nothing I can do
Or nothing I can say
That folks don't criticize me
But I'm going to do
Just as I want to anyway
And don't care just what people say
If I should take a notion
To jump into the ocean
Ain't nobody's business if I do
If I go to church on Sunday
Then cabaret all day Monday
Ain't nobody's business if I do
If my man ain't got no money
And I say "take all mine, honey"
Ain't nobody's business if I do
If I give him my last nickel
And it leaves me in a pickle
Ain't nobody's business if I do
But I'd rather my man would hit me
Than follow him to jump up and quit me
Ain't nobody's business if I do
I swear I won't call no copper
If I'm beat up by my papa
Ain't nobody's business if I do
Nobody's business
Ain't nobody's business
Nobody's business if I do
"Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do" (Porter Grainger/Everett Robbins)
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