CARMEN MCRAE - «T´AIN'T NOBODY BUSINESS ...»

'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do (Live At The Great American Music Hall/1976).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn1FXJkchIc

Carmen McRae canta ao vivo um célebre blues dos anos 1920, que vem desde Bessie Smith e Billie Holiday.

[Parece-me muito apropriada esta letra, numa altura em que a nossa liberdade de escolha individual é posta em causa da maneira mais insidiosa, em nome da nossa «saúde»]

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 of 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

Well, 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

Autores: Everett Robbins / Porter Grainger