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When a Woman Loves a Man

by Billie Holiday

on Lady Day (1954), Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia (1933-1944) (1933), The Essential Billie Holiday (2010)

Maybe he's not much
Just another man
Doing what he can
But what does she care
When a woman loves a man

She'll just string along
All through thick and thin
Till his ship comes in
It's always that way
When a woman loves a man

She'll be the first one
To praise him
When he's goin' strong
The last one to blame him
When everything's wrong
It's such a one sided game
That they play
But women are funny that way

Tell her she's a fool
She'll say, yes, I know
But I love him so
And that's how it goes
When a woman loves a man