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Thread #28882 Message #1954151
Posted By: Richie
31-Jan-07 - 09:34 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Ain't Nobody's Business
Subject: Lyr Add: NOBODY'S BUSINESS (from Warren Caplinger)
This version is from 1928 and is very similar to Earl Johnson's 1927 version. Both can be heard on-line.
NOBODY'S BUSINESS
Warren Caplinger's Cumberland Mountain Entertainers
Brunswick 294, 1929; Brunswick [Canada] 224, 1928
(Fiddle)
Sometimes I ramble
Get drunk and gamble
Nobody's business if I do.
Nobody's business, nobody's business
Nobody's business if I do.
(Fiddle)
That's where my money goes
To buy my sweet baby clothes
Nobody's business if I do
Nobody's business, nobody's business
Nobody's business if I do
(Fiddle)
Morphine's gonna run me crazy
Cocaine's gonna kill my baby
Some pretty girls gonna cause me to lose my mind
Nobody's business, nobody's business
Nobody's business if I do.
(Fiddle)
She rides a Ford machine
I buy the gasoline
Nobody's business if I do
Nobody's business, nobody's business
Nobody's business if I do
(Fiddle)
She runs a weenie stand
Way down in no man's land
Nobody's business if I do
Nobody's business, nobody's business
Nobody's business if I do
(Fiddle)
She rides in a Cadillac
Oh boy she makes the jack
Nobody's business if she do.
Nobody's business, nobody's business
Nobody's business if I do