-
- Earl Johnson and his Dixie Entertainers (1927):
sometimes I ramble
get drunk and gamble
nobody's business if I do
it's nobody's business,
nobody's business
nobody's business if I do
some of these mornin's, I wake up crazy
kill my wife and save my baby
it's nobody's business if I do
it's nobody's business,
nobody's business
nobody's business if I do
morphine's gonna run me crazy
cocaine's gonna kill my baby
pretty girls gonna cause me to lose my mind
it's nobody's business, nobody's business
nobody's business if I do
when she rides in a Ford machine
I buy the gasoline
nobody's business if I do
it's nobody's business, nobody's business
nobody's business if I do
that's where my money goes
to buy my baby clothes
nobody's business if I do
she runs a weenie stand
way down in no man's land
nobody's business if I do
that's where my money goes
to buy ...
nobody's business if I do
she rides in a Cadillac
oh boy she makes the jack
nobody's business if I do
that's where my money goes
to buy ...
nobody's business if I do
it's nobody's business, nobody's business
nobody's business if I do
Mississippi John Hurt (1928):
ain't nobody's dirty business, how my baby treat me
nobody's business but mine
ain't nobody's doggone business, how my baby treat me
nobody's business but my own
some of these mornin's, gonna wake up crazy
gonna grab my gun and kill my baby
nobody's business but mine
ain't nobody's doggone business, how my baby treat me
nobody's business but my own
some of these mornin's gonna wake up boozy
gonna grab my gun, gonna kill old Suzie
nobody's business but mine
goin' back to Pensacola, goin' to buy my babe a money moulder
nobody's business but my own
say babe, did you get that letter?
would you take me back, I'll treat you better
nobody's business but mine
ain't nobody's doggone business, how my baby treat me
nobody's business but my own
ain't nobody's dirty business, how my baby treat me
nobody's business but my own
some of these mornin's, goin' to wake up crazy
gonna grab my gun, gonna kill my baby
nobody's business but mine
ain't nobody's doggone business, how my baby treat me
nobody's business but my own
ain't nobody's dirty business, how my baby treat me
nobody's business but my own