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Thread #3306   Message #16324
Posted By: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au
17-Nov-97 - 10:29 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Ain't Nobody's Business
Subject: RE: REQ.It's nobodies busness what I do
Bessie Smith had a version of "Nobody's Business what I do"

I recall one line is

"If I get beat up by my poppa, I ain't gonna call no copper, ain't nobody's business but my own."

I think it was recorded in the late '20s.

There is also a version by Mississippi John Hurt, and versions by one or two other singer-pickers of the '30s.

Murray