Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Clarence Williams (1922)

If I should take a notion
To jump into the ocean
Tain't nobody's business if I do.

Rather than persecute me
Choose that you would shoot me
'Cause tain't nobody's business if I do.

You can talk, you can rave,
you can say awful things about me.
I don 't care what you say,
go on your way if you doubt me.

If I go to church on Sunday
And cabaret all day Monday
Tain't nobody's business if I do.


Hogeye Bill added some verses...

If I go to the alley and shoot some craps
It ain't no skin off of your ass
Tain't nobody's business if I do.

If I like to sit around tokin' my pipe
'Cause it makes me feel all right
Tain't nobody's business if I do.

If I hire me a hooker
To do me right, a real good looker
Tain't nobody's business if I do.

If I want to smoke or drink or fuck
Get out of my way or wish me gook luck
Tain't nobody's business if I do.

You can send your pigs all over the place,
trying to bust people like me.
You can fill your concentration camps
from sea to shining sea.

'Stead of sending your nazis to put me in jail
Leave me alone and go to hell
Tain't nobody's business if I do.

Mean fuckin' morons with sticks up their ass
Can't stand to see people enjoy the grass
Tain't nobody's business if I do.

If'n the thing don't harm no one
There ain't no reason to draw your gun
Tain't nobody's business if I do.

Folks tellin' me what to do or say
Gonna do what I damn well please anyway
Tain't nobody's business if I do.


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