Billie Holiday

[Jim Parish]

George Thompson wrote, of "Billie's Blues":
> This song, which she wrote, contains the
> line "I have been your slave ever since I have been your babe" -- the
> line is repeated twice in the stanza and the stnaza is usually sung
> twice in the performance, at the beginning and at the end.
>
> In nearly all repetitions of this verse I clearly hear her singing "I
> have been your slave |every| since I have been your babe"  Is this
> found from other speakers?

My version is from the CD "The Billie Holiday Songbook", and yes, she
definitely says "every".

Jim Parish