Billie Holiday(April 7, 1915 / July 17, 1959), also called Lady Day (and born Eleanora Fagan Gough in Baltimore MD), was an American singer, generally considered one of the greatest female jazzvoices of all time, alongside Sarah Vaughanand Ella Fitzgerald. She sang with Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Artie Shawand more - but it was her voicethat was said to dominate many others' music. Holiday was working for Columbia in the late 1930s when she was introduced to a song entitled "Strange Fruit," which began as a poem about the lynching of a black man written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher from the Bronx. Meeropol used the pseudonym "Lewis Allen" for the work. The poem was set to music and performed at teachers' union meetings, where it was eventually heard by the manager of Cafe Society, an integrated nightclub in Greenwich Village, who introduced it to Holiday.
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Baby Get Lost Lyrics
Billie Holiday
Leonard feather
Well good morning baby welcome back to town
Howd, fine papa, welcome back to town
Youre doing so much travelling never know
When youll be around
Youre a fine and mellow fellow
But youre stubborn as a mule
You love me like an angel
But you treat me like a fool
Two-faced daddy dont hand me no doublecross
Youll see any time Im ready
I can tell you baby get lost
Youre cheating on the outside
Doing anything you choose
You better come back on the inside
cause you got too much to lose
Dont want no trouble Ive got to be the boss
And if you cant play it my way
Well now baby get lost
I try to stop your cheating
But I just dont have the time
cause I got so many men that
Theyre standing right in line
Keep cool papa, you got to corne across
cause any time Im ready, yes any time Im ready
You know when Im ready
I can tell you baby get lost
Why dont you get lost