'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Alberta Hunter, The Original Memphis Five

There ain’t nothing I can do, nor nothing I can say

That folks don’t criticize me

So, I’m goin' to do just as I want to anyway

Don’t care if people just despise me

If I should take a notion

To jump into the ocean

Lord, tain’t nobody’s biz-ness if I do

Well, go on then, persecute me

I choose bad, you accuse me

And, tain’t nobody’s biz-ness if I do

I’m wild about a caveman lover

Really I wouldn’t have no other

And, tain’t nobody’s biz-ness if I do do do do do do do

If I jump from a rich man to a beggar

And, I slide and get myself a bootlegger

Lord, tain’t nobody’s biz-ness if I do

If I never call a copper

When I get beat up by my papa

Lord, tain’t nobody’s biz-ness if I do do do do

I’d rather he would hit me

Than to jump right up and quit me

And, tain’t nobody’s biz-ness if I do

If I attend church on Sunday

Just might strut my stuff on a Monday

Lord, tain’t nobody’s biz-ness if I do do do do do do do

I do not shout «I love you»

'Cause I feel I’m old enough for you

And, tain’t nobody’s biz-ness if I do