Blues For Billie Holiday - Terry Callier

Like an angel she could sing

But she had a broken wing

What a heavy price to pay

This here’s the blues for Billie Holliday

Simple gowns all she’d wear

With one gardenia in her hair

I remember her that way

This is the blues for Billie Holliday

Her heart was always on her sleeve

All too soon she had to leave

Like a child she went astray

I sing the blues for Billie Holliday

I just heard her voice again

Like an echo in the wind

Man, there’s nothin' left to say

I sing the blues for Billie Holliday