Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as Lady Ella (the First Lady of Song), was one of the most influential jazz singers of the 20th Century, the winner of thirteen Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Art presented by President Reagan and the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by the elder President Bush. Gifted with a three-octave vocal range, she was noted for her purity of tone, near faultless phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. Although considered by many to be simply the best, some critics have suggested that, whilst not exactly "phoning in the lyrics", she occasionally failed to put the required emotional investment into her interpretations. She remains, however, one of the most successful, influential and enduringly popular singers of the last century.
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Boy! What Love Has Done To Me! Lyrics
Ella Fitzgerald
I fetch his slippers, fill up the pipe he smokes
I cook the kippers, laugh at his oldest jokes
Yet here I anchor, I might have had a banker
Boy! what love has done to me
His natures funny, quarrelsome half the time
And as for money, he hasnt got a dime
And heres the joker, I might have had a broker
Boy! what love has done to me
When a guy looks my way
Does he get emphatic, say he gets dramatic?
I just wanna fly way
But if I left him Id be all at sea
Im just a slavey, life is a funny thing
Hes got the gravy, I got a wedding ring
And still I love him, theres nobody above him
Boy! what love has done to me
His brains are minus,
Never a thought in sight
And yet his highness
Lectures me day and night;
Oh where was my sense
To sign that wedding licence?
Boy! what love has done to me!
My life hes wrecking, bet you could find him now
Out somewhere necking somebody elses frau
You get to know life when married to a low life
Boy! what love has done to me
I cant hold my head up
The butcher, the baker, oh no hes a faker
Brother I am fed up
But if I left him hed be up a tree
Where will it wind up, I dont know where Im at
I make my mind up, I oughta leave him flat
But I have grown so, I love that dirty so-and-so
Boy! what love has done to me.