I have been listening to the original Turner version of this song for 35 years as it has been my favorite since I first heard it. Thus I have to correct the incorrect statements in the above comment (@ScoutII).
This is NOT the Gable produced Bill Haley version edited for the "white" market.
The line is NOT "Wearing those dresses/.../all of this belongs to you", it is "Way you wear those dresses/.../all this mess belongs to you" as posted in the lyric above.
The correction for "till you ain't no child" to "tell you ain't no child: is correct, it is tell not till.
Maybe the lryics listed aove changed after the comment was posted, but the lyrics listed above are currently very clearly the Jesse Stone (aka Charles E. Calhoun) written original, performed by Big Joe Turner. I have seen these lyrics posted many times and while they are fairly accurate some of the "ands" listed, I don't think are actually sung.
There were many versions of this song by many artists and even Joe Turner sang many different versions himself. Some believe the line "I get over the hill" was originally written and sung as "I've been holdin' it". On the original record the line is quite slurred, though it sounds to me like "I get over the hill". I have also heard live Turner recordings where it clearly sounds like "I've been holdin' it". I am not sure anyone knows for sure any more.
I have been listening to the original Turner version of this song for 35 years as it has been my favorite since I first heard it. Thus I have to correct the incorrect statements in the above comment (@ScoutII).
This is NOT the Gable produced Bill Haley version edited for the "white" market.
The line is NOT "Wearing those dresses/.../all of this belongs to you", it is "Way you wear those dresses/.../all this mess belongs to you" as posted in the lyric above. The correction for "till you ain't no child" to "tell you ain't no child: is correct, it is tell not till.
Maybe the lryics listed aove changed after the comment was posted, but the lyrics listed above are currently very clearly the Jesse Stone (aka Charles E. Calhoun) written original, performed by Big Joe Turner. I have seen these lyrics posted many times and while they are fairly accurate some of the "ands" listed, I don't think are actually sung.
There were many versions of this song by many artists and even Joe Turner sang many different versions himself. Some believe the line "I get over the hill" was originally written and sung as "I've been holdin' it". On the original record the line is quite slurred, though it sounds to me like "I get over the hill". I have also heard live Turner recordings where it clearly sounds like "I've been holdin' it". I am not sure anyone knows for sure any more.