BIG STUFF
Leonard Bernstein  1944

as rec by Billie Holiday & her Orch  March 13th 1946 New York


So you cry, 
What's it about, baby?
You ask me why 
The blues had to go and pick you.
So you go down to the shore, 
Kid's stuff!
Don't you know there's honey in store 
For you, big stuff?

Let's take a ride in my gravy train;
The door's open wide,
Come in from out of the rain!

So you stare, 
Call it despair,
Big Stuff!
Don't you care,
I'm on the square
About you!
Let's have a try,
It may be that you're my guy!

So you stare, 
Call it despair,
Big Stuff!
Don't you care,
I'm on the square
About you!
Let's have a try,
It may be that you're my guy!






(Contributed by Peter Akers - December 2009)