KEEP YOUR NOSE OUT OF MY BUSINESS
(Jack Carrington)


Calvin Boze & His All-Stars - 1950



Keep your nose (Out of my business)
Keep your nose (Out of my business)
Keep your nose (Out of my business)
Then we'll get along

Now, me and my wife was doin' all right
She didn't argue and she didn't fight
She never grumbled and she never got sore
Till Matilda Johnson moved next door
Now, Matilda had nothin' to do
She beat her gums the whole day through

She talked about the people across the street
About what they'd drink and what they'd eat
She had my old woman over for tea
And she started in tellin' her things about me
When I got home last Saturday night
My old woman upped and started a fight

Keep your nose (Out of my business)
Keep your nose (Out of my business)
Just keep your nose (Out of my business)
Then we'll get along

Now, she moved my trunk out in the hall
Tore my picture down from the wall
Stacked my shoes in a pile on the floor
Had a movin' van waitin' at my door
When I said, "Woman, are you touched in the head?"
She started in tellin' what Matilda said

Keep your nose (Out of my business)
Keep your nose (Out of my business)
Just keep your nose (Out of my business)
Then we'll get along

Now, over to Matilda's house we go
Busted right in and we closed the door
I said, "Matilda, if you value your life
You better tell me what you told my wife"
Matilda's face turned a different hue
She said, "Man, I never said a thing about you"

Keep your nose (Out of my business)
Keep your nose (Out of my business)
Just keep your nose (Out of my business)
Then we'll get along

Now, my old woman couldn't take no more
So she knocked Matilda down on the floor
She called her a big fat tub of lard
Pushed her out the window into the yard
They faught on the sidewalk and faught on the lawn
I stood there just lookin' on

Stockin' was a-rippin' and the hair was a-flyin'
Chickens was a-cacklin' and the baby was a-cryin'
Listen to me, take my advice
Don't talk at all if you can't talk quiet

Keep your nose (Out of my business)
Just keep your nose (Out of my business)
Keep your nose (Out of my business)
Then we'll get along



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - February 2017)