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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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Come Rain Or Come Shine Lyrics

Billie Holiday

Harold arlen / johnny mercer
Im gonna love you like nobodys loved you come rain or come shine
High as a mountain and deep as a river come rain or come shine
I guess when you met me it was just one of those things
But dont ever bet me cause Im gonna be true if you let me
Youre gonna love me like nobodys loved me come rain or come shine
Happy together unhappy together and wont it be fine?
Days may be cloudy or sunny
Were in or were out of the money
But Im with you always, Im with you rain or shine
Im gonna love you like nobodys loved you come rain or come shine
High as a mountain deep as a river come rain or come shine
I guess when you met me it was just one of those things
But dont ever bet me cause Im gonna be true if you let me
Youre gonna love me like nobodys loved me come rain or come shine
Happy together unhappy together and wont it be fine?
Days may be cloudy or sunny
Were in or were out of the money.
But Ill love you always, Im with you rain or shine
Rain or shine.