FINE AND MELLOW
(Billie Holiday)

Billie Holiday & Her Orch. - 1939
Merline Johnson - 1939
Erskine Hawkins & His Orch. - 1939
Andy Kirk & His 12 Clouds Of Joy (vocal: June Richmond) - 1940
Ella Fitzgerald - 1953
Etta Jones - 1960
Diana Ross (feat. in the film "Lady Sings The Blues") - 1972

Also recorded by: Peggy Lee; Nellie Lutcher; Cleo Laine;
Carmen McRae; Nina Simone; Mary Stallings; Patty Waters;
Rex Allen & Terri Richards; Alberta Hunter; Eva Cassidy;
Topsy Chapman; Laila Dalseth; Mary Coughlan; John Hicks;
Ranee Lee; Champion Jack Dupree: ........... and others.


My man don't love me
Treats me oh, so mean
My man don't he love me
Treats me awful mean
He's the lowest man
That I've ever see

He wears high drape pants
Stripes are really yellow
He wears high drape pants
Stripes area really yellow
But when he starts in to love me
He's so fine and mellow

Love will make you drink and gamble
Make you stay out all night long
Love will make you drink and gamble
Make you stay out all night long
Love will make you do things
That you know is wrong

But if you treat me right, baby
I'll stay home every day
If you treat me right, baby
I'll stay home every day
But you're so mean to me, baby
I know you're gonna drive me away

Love is just like a faucet
It turns off and on
Love is like a faucet
It turns off and on
Sometimes when you think it's on, baby
It has turned off and gone


(Transcribed from the Billie Holiday
recording by Mel Priddle - January 2005)