Fine and Mellow

My man don't love me

Treats me oh so mean

My man, he don't love me

Treats me awful mean

He's the lowest man

That I've ever seen

He wears high-draped pants

Stripes are really yellow

He wears high-draped pants

Stripes are really yellow

But when he starts in to love me

He's so fine and mellow

Love will make you drink and gamble

Make you stay out all night long

Love will make you drink and gamble

Make you stay out all night long

Love will make you do things that you know is wrong

But if you treat me right daddy

I'll stay home every day

If you treat me right daddy

I'll stay home every day

But you're so mean to me, baby

I know you're gonna drive me away

Love is just like a faucet

It turns off and on

Love is just like a faucet

It turns off and on

Some times when you think it's on, baby

It has turned off and gone

Billie Holiday

Strange Fruit

Southern trees bear strange fruit

Blood on the leaves and blood at the root

Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze

Strange fruit hanging from the popular trees

 

Pastoral scene of the gallant south

The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth

Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh

Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

 

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck

For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck

For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop

Here is a strange and bitter cry

Billie Holiday

Glad to be unhappy

Look at yourself.

Do you still believe in rumor

That romance is simply grand?

Since you took it right

On the chin,

You have lost that bright

Toothpaste grin.

My mental state is all a jumble.

I sit around and sadly mumble.

Fools rush in, so here I am,

Very glad to be unhappy.

Unrequited love’s a bore,

And I’ve got it pretty bad.

But for someone you adore,

It’s a pleasure to be sad

I’m so unhappy,

But oh, so glad.

Billie Holiday