| There ain’t nothing I can do, nor nothing I can say
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| That folks don’t criticize me
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| So, I’m goin' to do just as I want to anyway
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| Don’t care if people just despise me
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| If I should take a notion
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| To jump into the ocean
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| Lord, tain’t nobody’s biz-ness if I do
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| Well, go on then, persecute me
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| I choose bad, you accuse me
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| And, tain’t nobody’s biz-ness if I do
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| I’m wild about a caveman lover
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| Really I wouldn’t have no other
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| And, tain’t nobody’s biz-ness if I do do do do do do do
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| If I jump from a rich man to a beggar
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| And, I slide and get myself a bootlegger
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| Lord, tain’t nobody’s biz-ness if I do
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| If I never call a copper
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| When I get beat up by my papa
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| Lord, tain’t nobody’s biz-ness if I do do do do
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| I’d rather he would hit me
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| Than to jump right up and quit me
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| And, tain’t nobody’s biz-ness if I do
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| If I attend church on Sunday
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| Just might strut my stuff on a Monday
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| Lord, tain’t nobody’s biz-ness if I do do do do do do do
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| I do not shout «I love you»
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| 'Cause I feel I’m old enough for you
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| And, tain’t nobody’s biz-ness if I do |