Songwriter: Billie Holiday
Producer: Gil Askey
[Verse 1:]
My man don't love me
Treats me oh so mean
My man, he don't love me
Treats me awful mean
He's the lowest man
That I've ever seen
He wears high-draped pants
Stripes are really yellow
He wears high-draped pants
Stripes are really yellow
But when he starts in to love me
He's so fine and mellow
[Verse 2:]
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, Daddy
I'll stay home every day
If you treat me right, Daddy
I'll stay home every day
But you're so mean to me, baby
I know you're gonna drive me away
[Verse 3:]
Love is just like a faucet
It turns off and on
Love is just like a faucet
It turns off and on
Sometimes when you think
It's on, baby
It has turned off and gone
My man don't love me
Treats me oh so mean
My man, he don't love me
Treats me awful mean
He's the lowest man
That I've ever seen
He wears high-draped pants
Stripes are really yellow
He wears high-draped pants
Stripes are really yellow
But when he starts in to love me
He's so fine and mellow
[Verse 2:]
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, Daddy
I'll stay home every day
If you treat me right, Daddy
I'll stay home every day
But you're so mean to me, baby
I know you're gonna drive me away
[Verse 3:]
Love is just like a faucet
It turns off and on
Love is just like a faucet
It turns off and on
Sometimes when you think
It's on, baby
It has turned off and gone
more tracks from the album
Stolen Moments: The Lady Sings... Jazz and Blues
- Good Morning Heartache
- Little Girl Blue
- Fine and Mellow (Reprise)
- Mean to Me
- God Bless the Child
- Strange Fruit
- My Man
- You’ve Changed
- Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)
- Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)
- Love Is Here to Stay
- What a Little Moonlight Can Do
- Fine and Mellow
- Don’t Explain
- I Cried for You
- Them There Eyes
- The Man I Love
- ’T Ain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do
- There’s a Small Hotel
From the albums
Diana Ross popular songs
- I’m Coming Out
- Upside Down
- Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
- Ease on Down the Road #1
- It’s Your Move
- If We Hold On Together
- The Boss
- Missing You
- Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To)
- When You Tell Me That You Love Me
- Chain Reaction
- He Lives in You
- Love Hangover
- Touch Me in the Morning
- Do You Know Where Youre Going To
- It’s My House
- I’m Still Waiting
- A Brand New Day
- Always and Forever
- If You’re Not Gonna Love Me Right (Crenshaw Records version)
- Once in the Morning
- That’s How You Start Over
- Love Me (Japanese quadraphonic edition)
- Ain’t Nothin’ But a Maybe