Billie Holiday's God Bless the Child
1941 · Work
Co-written by Holiday after a row with her mother over money, its bitter refrain — 'Them that's got shall get' — becomes her best-known original song.
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- Korean War (1950)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- World War II (1939)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Apartheid (1948)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)