Blues Lyrics: Saffire -The Uppity Blues Women

Here's the All-Music Guide's entry on Saffire.

This page contains lyrics to the following song(s):

• T Ain't Nobody's Business

T Ain't Nobody's Business

This is a reworking of a classic blues song, that was already recorded by Bessie Smith in 1923 (as 'T Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do). It was composed by Porter Grainger and Everett Robbins. Saffire recorded it in 1994. It can be found on the Alligator album "Old, New, Borrowed & Blue" as well as on the Alligator Records 25th Anniversary Collection double CD. The group consists of Ann Rabson, Gaye Adegbalola and Andra Faye McIntosh. Another version here is by Jeannie & Jimmy Cheatham.

See also:

• 'T Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do (Bessie Smith)
• Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do (Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham)

There is nothing I can do
Nothing I can say
That folks don't criticize me
But I'm gonna do
Just what I want to anyway
Don't care if they all despise me

If I go to church on Sunday
And I honkytonk all day Monday
Ain't nobody's business if I do

And if I should get a feeling
I wanna dance upon the ceiling
Ain't nobody's business, oh it ain't nobody's business if I do

If I stay out all night
Spend all my money, well that's all right
It ain't nobody's business if I do

You try to tell me I got no right to sing the blues
What gives you the right to tell me what I should do?
It ain't nobody's, ain't nobody's business if I do

Well it ain't nobody's business
It ain't no it ain't nobody's business
You know it ain't nobody's business
ain't nobody's business what I do
Whoa what I do
You know it ain't nobody's business
ain't nobody's business if I do.

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