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Thread #3306 Message #3665210
Posted By: Jim Dixon
01-Oct-14 - 09:55 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Ain't Nobody's Business
Subject: Lyr Add: 'TAIN'T NOBODY'S BUSINESS IF I DO (Stokes
This is my transcription from Spotify. Several words are questionable; you can probably tell which ones because some lines don't quite make sense.
'TAIN'T NOBODY'S BUSINESS IF I DO - Part 1 (3:10) As sung by Frank Stokes on "Memphis Rounder: The Complete Victor Recordings in Chronological Order (1928-1929)" (Document Records, DOCD-5013)
Says my old lady took and wrote me a letter. She told me that I'd(?) treat me better. Nobody's business but mine. Now she wrote the letter and she wrote t'me in haste. If you're goin' to a better gal, you better make haste. Ain't nobody's business but my own.
It ain't nobody's business, honey, Where I find my money, Nobody's business but mine. It ain't nobody business, kid, Who in the world I do my business with. Now it ain't nobody business but my own.
I laid my head said just between her, Swore to the world I hadn't never seen her. It ain't nobody's business but mine. Now it ain't got a roof, ain't got no comb, Poor roustabout ain't got no home. It ain't nobody's business but my own.
It ain't nobody's business, honey, Where in the world I find my money, Nobody's business but mine. It ain't nobody's business, honey, Where in the world I find my money, Nobody's business but my own.
I said, baby, y'oughta been told me Fourteen years before you wrote me, So I had some other place to go. Now, baby, you oughta been told me, Fourteen years before you wrote me, So I had some other place to go.
It ain't nobody's business, kid, Where in the world I got my money hid. It ain't nobody's business but mine. It ain't nobody's business, honey, Where in the world I find my money, Nobody's business but my own.
This(?) business, baby, Nobody's business, baby, No business but mine. Nobody's business, honey.