It cost me a lot
But there’s one thing
that I’ve got
It’s my man
It’s my man
Cold or wet
Tired, you bet
All of this I’ll soon forget
With my man
He’s not much on looks
He’s no hero out of books
But I love him
Yes, I love him
Two or three girls
Has he
That he likes as well as me
But I love him
I don’t know why I should
He isn’t true
He beats me, too
What can I do?
Oh, my man, I love him so
He’ll never know
All my life is just despair
But I don’t care
When he takes me in his arms
The world is bright
All right
What’s the
difference if I
say
I’ll go away
When I know I’ll come back
On my knees someday
For whatever my man is
I’m his forevermore
Abagond 
This makes me so sad…I can’t believe what this young lady went through.
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This statement above is made by someone who absolutly has no affinity for jazz and one of its greatest singers.Maybe the turkey bone of anti Americanism is stuck in her craw so much she cant even do a little reseach on Billie Holiday, her life and suffering because of her drug addiction and coming from the horrible abusive world of drug addiction and the hold someone can have over them. Besides that Billie Holiday comes from a background of prostitution at a very young age.
Its painfully obvious Bulanik doesnt know a thing about jazz as on the Miles Davis thread, she tries to compare Indian rhythmic vocalese with scat singing by Ella Fitzgerald, one is complex demonstration of rhythms using the voice the other is scating notes that have to fit into the tones and she has to negociate chord changes, two radicly differant things like comparing apples to oranges.She cant seem to want to have an in depth discusion about black American culture without freaking out and having to derail it with referances to Indian culture…which would be a fantastic thread in itself , but has nothing to do with black American culture
Where this might be “ugh” for her, two millionfivehundred people have viewed here (your youtube wont come up now , Abagond, so here is another link) :
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQlehVpcAes)
A Billie Holiday interpretation is so much more than the lyrics, its in the way her voice is like a window to her soul.And, what is so “ugh” about hearing this woman address a condition that many women found themselves involved in, an abusive relationship, at least it can be disussed, not flipantly dissmissed…as “ugh”…this was back in the fifties when these subjects were hardly brought up. And, this, like Strange Fruit, her song about lynchings, are slightly differant than her normal songs, which were incredible swinging and singing and lush ballads. Those two songs were a departure for her and somewhat differant, and have to be seen in the context of her whole body of work to really understand how incredible Billie Holiday is.
Billie Holiday is real black American culture , something that cant seem to be discussed with much depth
If this is stalking, Abagond, feel free to ban me,Im in listening mode, but, Im not going to sit around with this kind of dissmisal of one of our greatest black American singers…black American culture is so much more than just the “hits ” from the 60’s on…
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