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Reading From "Lady Sings The Blues" 5 - Live At Carnegie Hall/1956

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歌词

One of the songs I wrote and recorded
Has my marriage to Jimmy Monroe
Written all over it
I guess I always knew what I was letting myself in for
One night he came in with lipstick on his collar
He started explaining and explaining
"Take a bath man," I said
Don't explain
And the more I thought about it
It changed from an ugly scene to a sad song
Soon I was singing phrases to myself
And suddenly I had a whole song
This is one song I can't sing
Without feeling every minute of it
My marriage was coming apart
And it was during this time that I got hooked
It wasn't long before I was one of the highest
Paid slaves around
The way it is, was strange once for me
I had the white gowns
And the white shoes
And every night, they'd bring me
The white gordinos and the white junk