Pirate Jenny-Nina Simone

[ti:Pirate Jenny] [ar:Nina Simone] [al:Verve Jazz Masters 17: Nina Simone] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Pirate Jenny - Nina Simone (妮娜·西蒙) [00:02.13]Written by：Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill/Marc Blitzstein [00:04.26]You people can watch while I'm scrubbing these floors [00:07.71]And I'm scrubbin the floors while you're gawking [00:11.82]Maybe once ya tip me and it makes ya feel swell [00:14.92]In this crummy southern town [00:16.66]In this crummy old hotel [00:18.63]But youll never guess to who you're talkin [00:22.25]No you couldn't ever guess to who you're talkin [00:31.15]Then one night theres a scream in the night [00:35.16]And youll wonder who could that have been [00:40.11]And you see me kinda grinnin while I'm scrubbin [00:45.40]And you say what's she got to grin [00:49.78]Ill tell you [00:53.27]Theres a ship [00:59.06]The black freighter [01:03.04]With a skull on its masthead [01:07.45]Will be coming in [01:15.66]You gentlemen can say hey gal finish them floors [01:19.02]Get upstairs what's wrong with you earn your keep here [01:22.82]You toss me your tips [01:24.24]And look out to the ships [01:26.08]But I'm counting your heads [01:28.28]As I'm making the beds [01:29.83]Cuz theres nobody gonna sleep here honey [01:39.04]Nobody [01:42.24]Nobody [01:48.46]Then one night theres a scream in the night [01:52.35]And you say whos that kicking up a row [01:57.17]And ya see me kinda starin out the winda [02:03.82]And you say what's she got to stare at now [02:08.33]Ill tell ya [02:11.34]Theres a ship [02:17.86]The black freighter [02:22.46]Turns around in the harbor [02:27.94]Shootin guns from her bow [02:36.22]Now [02:37.30]You gentlemen can wipe off that smile off your face [02:40.73]Cause every building in town is a flat one [02:44.02]This whole frickin place will be down to the ground [02:47.75]Only this cheap hotel standing up safe and sound [02:51.64]And you yell why do they spare that one [02:55.14]Yes [02:56.33]Thats what you say [02:58.38]Why do they spare that one [03:06.04]All the night through through the noise and to-do [03:10.39]You wonder who is that person that lives up there [03:15.56]And you see me stepping out in the morning [03:21.33]Looking nice with a ribbon in my hair [03:32.15]And the ship [03:37.76]The black freighter [03:42.48]Runs a flag up its masthead [03:45.24]And a cheer rings the air [03:54.31]By noontime the dock [03:58.01]Is a-swarmin with men [03:59.77]Comin out from the ghostly freighter [04:03.77]They move in the shadows [04:06.60]Where no one can see [04:08.61]And theyre chainin up people [04:10.93]And theyre bringin em to me [04:13.05]Askin me [04:14.51]Kill them now or later [04:17.95]Askin me [04:21.47]Kill them now or later [04:28.75]Noon by the clock [04:34.17]And so still by the dock [04:39.80]You can hear a foghorn miles away [04:51.75]And in that quiet of death [04:57.00]Ill say right now [05:04.58]Right now [05:14.01]Then they'll pile up the bodies [05:18.37]And Ill say [05:20.84]Thatll learn ya [05:24.36]And the ship [05:39.06]The black freighter [05:49.17]Disappears out to sea [06:03.26]And [06:05.43]On [06:07.55]It [06:11.38]Is [06:13.05]Me