Billie Holiday Discography The Lyrics Section

In this section you'll find a comprehensive transcription of all Billie Holiday songs. Every title listed below is linked to its individual web page.  

There you'll find the lyrics of every individual recorded version, being either a Master Take, an Alternate Take or a Live Recording. A single page can therefore contain up to 20 different versions.

Herself a lyricist, Billie frequently add minor personal changes to the tracks she sang. These variations are highlighted, compared to the previous recorded version.

 

A Fine Romance
A Foggy Day
A Ghost Of A Chance = Ghost Of A Chance
A Sailboat in the Moonlight
A Sunbonnet Blue (And A Yellow Straw Hat)
A Yiddische Momme [rehearsal session]
Ain't Misbehavin'
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
All of Me
All of You
All or Nothing at All
All the Way
Always
Am I Blue?
Any Old Time
April in My Heart
April in Paris
As Time Goes By
Autumn in New York
Baby Get Lost
Baby, I Don't Cry over You
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?
Back in Your Own Backyard
Be Fair With Me Baby
Beer Barrel Polka [rehearsal session]
Big City Blues = Saddest Tale
Big Stuff
Billie's Blues (I Love My Man)
Blue Moon
Blue Turning Grey Over You
Body and Soul
Born to Love
But Beautiful
But Not for Me
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
Carelessly
Cheek to Cheek
Come Rain or Come Shine
Comes Love
Crazy He Calls Me
Darn That Dream
Day in-Day Out
Deed I Do
Deep Song
Detour Ahead
Did I Remember?
Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
Do Your Duty
Don't Explain
Don't Worry 'Bout Me
Dream of Life
East of the Sun
Easy Living
Easy to Love
Eeny Meeny Miney Mo
Embraceable You
Everybody's Laughing
Everything Happens for the Best
Everything Happens to Me
Everything I Have Is Yours
Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)
Farewell To Storyville
Fine And Mellow
Foolin' Myself
For All We Know
For Heaven's Sake
Forget If You Can
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
Georgia on My Mind
Getting Some Fun out of Life
Ghost Of A Chance (I Don't Stand A)
Ghost of Yesterday
Gimme a Pigfoot And a Bottle of Beer
Girls Were Made to Take Care of Boys
Glad To Be Unhappy
Gloomy Sunday
God Bless the Child
Gone with the Wind
Good Morning Heartache
Guess Who
Guilty
Havin' Myself A Time
Having Myself A Time (Havin' Myself A Time)
He Ain't Got Rhythm
Hello My Darling
Here It Is Tomorrow Again
He's Funny That Way
How Am I to Know
How Could You?
How Deep Is the Ocean?
I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
I Can't Face the Music
I Can't Get Started
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
I Can't Pretend

I Cover The Waterfront
I Cried for You
I Didn't Know What Time It Was
I Don't Know If I'm Coming or Going
I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance = Ghost Of A Chance
I Don't Want to Cry Anymore
I Get a Kick out of You
I Get Along Without You Very Well

I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) [rehearsal session]
I Gotta Right To Sing the Blues
I Hadn't Anyone Till You
I Hear Music
I Love My Man = Billie's Blues
I Love You Porgy = Porgy
I Must Have That Man
I Only Have Eyes for You
I Thought About You
I Wish I Had You
I Wished on the Moon
I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone
I Won't Believe It [rehearsal session]
If Dreams Come True
If I Were You
If My Heart Could Only Talk
If the Moon Turns Green
If You Were Mine
I'll Be Around
I'll Be Seeing You
I'll Get By
I'll Look Around
I'll Never Be the Same
I'll Never Fail You
I'll Never Smile Again
Ill Wind
I'm A Fool To Want You
I'm All for You
I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away The Key)
I'm in a Low-Down Groove Mood
I'm Painting the Town Red
I'm Pulling Through
I'm Restless  [rehearsal session]
I'm Walkin' Through Heaven with You  [rehearsal session]
I'm Yours
Isn't This a Lovely Day?
Israel [rehearsal session]
It Had to Be You
It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
It's Easy to Blame the Weather
It's Easy To Remember
It's Like Reaching for the Moon
It's Not for Me to Say
It's The Same Old Story
It's Too Hot for Words
I've Got a Date with a Dream
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
Jeepers Creepers
Jim
Just Friends  [rehearsal session]
Just One More Chance
Just One of Those Things
Keeps On A Rainin'
Lady Sings the Blues
Lady's Back In Town  [rehearsal session]
Laughing at Life
Let's Call a Heart a Heart
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
Let's Do It
Let's Dream in the Moonlight
Life Begins When You're in Love
Long Gone Blues
Love for Sale
Love Me or Leave Me
Loveless Love
Lover Come Back To Me
Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
Mandy Is Two
Maybe You'll Be There
Me, Myself and I
Mean to Me
Misery  [rehearsal session]
Miss Brown To You
Moanin' Low
Moonglow
Moonlight in Vermont
More Than You Know
My First Impression of You
My Last Affair (This Is)
My Man (Mon Homme)
My Old Flame
My Sweet Hunk of Trash
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Night and Day
No Good Man
No More (You Ain't Gonna Bother Me)
No Regrets
Now Or Never
Now They Call It Swing
On the Sentimental Side
On The Sunny Side of The Street
One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
One Never Knows, Does One?
One, Two, Button Your Shoe
Our Love Is Different
Our Love Is Here to Stay
P.S. I Love You
Pennies from Heaven
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
Please Keep Me in Your Dreams
Please Tell Me Now
Porgy (I Love You)
Practice Makes Perfect
Prelude to a Kiss
Remember
Riffin' the Scotch
Rocky Mountain Blues
Romance in the Dark
Saddest Tale (aka Big City Blues)
Say It Isn't So
Say It with a Kiss
Says My Heart
Sentimental and Melancholy
Softly
Solitude
Some Of These Days  [rehearsal session]
Some Other Spring
Somebody's on My Mind
Sometimes I'm Happy
Sophisticated Lady
Speak Low
Spreadin' Rhythm Around
St. Louis Blues
Stars Fell on Alabama
Stormy Blues
Stormy Weather
Strange Fruit
Sugar (That Sugar Baby of Mine)
Summertime
Sun Showers
Swing, Brother, Swing
Tell Me More and More, And Then Some
Tenderly
That Old Devil Called Love
That's All I Ask of You
That's Life I Guess
The Blues Are Brewin'
The End Of A Love Affair
The Man I Love
The Mood That I'm In
The Moon Looks Down and Laughs
The Nearness Of You [rehearsal session]
The Very Thought of You
The Way You Look Tonight
Them There Eyes
There Is No Greater Love
There'll Be Some Changes Made
These Foolish Things
These 'n' That 'n' Those
They Can't Take That Away From Me
They Say
Things Are Looking Up
This Is Heaven to Me
This Is My Last Affair = My Last Affair
This Year's Kisses
Time On My Hands
Too Marvelous For Words
Travelin' All Alone = Trav'lin' All Alone
Travelin' Light = Trav'lin' Light
Trav'lin' All Alone
Trav'lin' Light
Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Under a Blue Jungle Moon
Until the Real Thing Comes Along
Violets For Your Furs
Weep No More
We'll Be Together Again
What A Little Moonlight Can Do
What A Night, What a Moon, What a Girl
What Is This Going to Get Us?
What Is This Thing Called Love
What Shall I Say?
What's New?
When a Woman Loves a Man
When It's Sleepy Time Down South
When You Are Away, Dear  [rehearsal session]
When Your Lover Has Gone
When You're Smiling
Where Is the Sun?
Wherever You Are
Who Loves You?
Who Wants Love?
Why Did I Always Depend on You?
Why Was I Born?
Willow Weep For Me
With Thee I Swing
Without Your Love
Yankee Doodle Never Went to Town
Yesterdays
You Ain't Gonna Bother Me No More = No More
You Better Go Now
You Can't Be Mine (And Someone Else's Too)
You Can't Lose A Broken Heart
You Don't Know What Love Is
You Go To My Head
You Gotta Show Me
You Let Me Down
You Showed Me the Way
You Took Advantage of Me
You Turned the Tables on Me
Your Mother's Son-In-Law
You're A Lucky Guy
You're Driving Me Crazy
You're Gonna See a Lot of Me
You're Just a No Account
You're My Thrill
You're So Desirable
You're Too Lovely to Last
Yours And Mine
You've Changed

© 2011 Billie Holiday Songs

version 16.6 December 2011

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