Billie's Blues (I Love My Man) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by girlybat 

Cover art for Billie's Blues (I Love My Man) lyrics by Billie Holiday

ITA w/ the PP about the lyric correction. i had always thought that line meant that her old man set her clothes on fire, but a friend suggested that her old man sold her clothes for a matchbox of dope. makes sense. that'd sure give me the blues.