Billie Holiday - Your Mother's Son-In-Law

The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia Volume 1
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Charlie Teagarden, Shirley Clay (tp) Jack Teagarden (tb) Benny Goodman(cl) Art Karle (ts) Buck Washington (p)Dick McDonough(g) Artie Bernstein (b) Gene Krupa (d)Deane Kincaide (arr)Billie Holiday (v)
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Lyrics by: Alberta Nichols & Mann Holiner

You don't have to have a hanker
To be a broker or a banker
No siree, just simply be
My mother's son-in-law.
Needn't even think of tryin'
To be a mighty social lion
Sipping tea, if you'll be
My mother's son-in-law,
Ain't got the least desire
To set the world on fire
Just wish you'd make it proper
To call my old man papa
You don't have to sing like Bledsoe
You can tell the world I said so
Can't you see you've got to be
My mother's son-in-law.

You don't have to sing like Jessel
You can tell the world I said so
Can't you see, you've got to be
My mother's son-in-law.

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[vidnut222]

Her first recording..and she say's on one of the interviews posted here that she was only 13 or 14 years old at the time..amazing!

[purple0accident]

Billie was born in 1915, so she was 18 when she recorded it :)

[GayGeisha]

I was born way too late - I'd have given anything to see her perform live. What a woman!

[mookindahouse]

HER FIRST SONG EVER RECORDED! :)

[Teddyb1939]

This is Billie in swinging mood & I absolutely love it, I would defy anyone to remain seated when this is playing!!

[Degrassi90zGRungy]

THIZ IZ ON MY 2ND MIXTAPE FRUM 1987! :)

[bloozmonkey111]

brilliant! thanks for posting

[Mondibaby]

thanx for the lyrics ... just got me the "complete billie on columbia box" ... loads of wonderful music ... gonna take me a while to get trough with the joyful listenting :-)

[stapelgek100]

Thanks for the lyrics. I had some trouble understanding some of the words.

[Eliezer821]

BILLIE I LOVE YOU!!!