I am filled with --- pain
Who soothes my achin'
---- brain?
Nobody
When winder comes with snow and sleet
I'm so tired
with cold feet
Who says, "Here's two bits, Nina
Go and eat"?
Nobody
I ain't don't nothin'
to nobody
I ain't never got nothin'
from from nobody
no time
And until I get me somethin'
yes, from somebody sometime,
well, I don't intend to do nothin'
for nobody
no time
Then winter comes all cold and clear
My friends they see me comin' near
Who says, "Come on in, child, and have a beer"?
No-body
When all day long things go amiss
I go on find some bliss
Who hands to me a golden kiss?
Nobody
I ain't ever done nothin'
to no-body
I ain't ever got nothin'
from no-body no time
And until I get me somethin'
from somebody somebody
I don't intend to do nothin'
for nobody
Nobody no time, no time
Nobody no time
This song was made famous at the turn of the century in vaudeville by Bert Williams (Antigua 1874, New York 1922) and was described by James Gawin in the liner notes of CD Broadway, blues, ballads as "a hard-luck story, an early example of race consciousness replete with double entendre".
Bert Williams was a black ragtime singer, dancer and comic, described by W. C. Fields as "the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew". He was immortalised by Duke Ellington in "Portrait of Bert Williams".
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