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Billie Holiday's "Ain't Nobody's Business"



Audra McDonald brings an operatic timbre to this song, but nobody sang "Ain't It The Truth" like Lena Horne. Its humanist lyrics caused Lena Horne's performance to be cut from Cabin in the Sky, though the fact that she sang it while in the bathtub in 1943 probably contributed more.



In my view, we need more "Ain't Nobody's Business" and "Ain't It The Truth" from public servants, both in the literal meanings of the titles and in their performers' examples of dignity and grace.