Pirate Jenny

Song Pirate Jenny
Artist Nina Simone
Album Nina Simone in Concert [live]

Lyrics

[00:05.00] You people can watch while Im scrubbing these floors
[00:07.62] And Im scrubbin the floors while youre gawking
[00:10.04]
[00:11.67] Maybe once ya tip me and it makes ya feel swell
[00:14.80] In this crummy southern town
[00:16.55] In this crummy old hotel
[00:17.72]
[00:18.54] But youll never guess to who youre talkin.
[00:20.72]
[00:22.03] No. you couldnt ever guess to who youre talkin.
[00:27.41]
[00:30.89] Then one night theres a scream in the night
[00:34.95] And youll wonder who could that have been
[00:37.82]
[00:40.00] And you see me kinda grinnin while Im scrubbin
[00:43.86]
[00:44.93] And you say, whats she got to grin?
[00:48.80]
[00:49.55] Ill tell you.
[00:50.73]
[00:53.23] Theres a ship
[00:56.78]
[00:58.97] The black freighter
[01:00.65]
[01:02.84] With a skull on its masthead
[01:07.27] Will be coming in
[01:09.52]
[01:15.45] You gentlemen can say, hey gal, finish them floors!
[01:18.82] Get upstairs! whats wrong with you! earn your keep here!
[01:21.74]
[01:22.50] You toss me your tips
[01:24.11] And look out to the ships
[01:25.80] But Im counting your heads
[01:27.92] As Im making the beds
[01:29.67] Cuz theres nobody gonna sleep here, honey
[01:32.98] Nobody
[01:35.16] Nobody!
[01:35.78] Then one night theres a scream in the night
[01:52.07] And you say, whos that kicking up a row?
[01:55.38]
[01:56.75] And ya see me kinda starin out the winda
[02:01.06] And you say, whats she got to stare at now?
[02:06.92]
[02:08.11] Ill tell ya.
[02:09.30]
[02:10.92] Theres a ship
[02:14.92]
[02:17.48] The black freighter
[02:21.52]
[02:22.15] Turns around in the harbor
[02:27.52] Shootin guns from her bow
[02:30.70]
[02:35.82] Now
[02:36.88] You gentlemen can wipe off that smile off your face
[02:40.37] Cause every building in town is a flat one
[02:43.05]
[02:43.55] This whole frickin place will be down to the ground
[02:47.36] Only this cheap hotel standing up safe and sound
[02:51.16] And you yell, why do they spare that one?
[02:54.28]
[02:54.85] Yes.
[02:56.10] Thats what you say.
[02:57.09]
[02:57.91] Why do they spare that one?
[02:59.52]
[03:00.96] All the night through, through the noise and to-do
[03:09.94] You wonder who is that person that lives up there?
[03:14.01]
[03:15.19] And you see me stepping out in the morning
[03:19.13]
[03:19.93] Looking nice with a ribbon in my hair
[03:25.74]
[03:27.54] And the ship
[03:35.63]
[03:37.37] The black freighter
[03:39.87]
[03:42.06] Runs a flag up its masthead
[03:45.61] And a cheer rings the air
[03:47.42]
[03:54.03] By noontime the dock
[03:56.97] Is a-swarmin with men
[03:59.15] Comin out from the ghostly freighter
[04:03.33] They move in the shadows
[04:06.14] Where no one can see
[04:08.07] And theyre chainin up people
[04:09.88]
[04:10.44] And theyre bringin em to me
[04:12.69] Askin me,
[04:14.13] Kill them now, or later?
[04:16.06]
[04:17.56] Askin me!
[04:18.50]
[04:21.00] Kill them now, or later?
[04:24.79]
[04:28.36] Noon by the clock
[04:32.04]
[04:33.85] And so still by the dock
[04:37.34]
[04:39.46] You can hear a foghorn miles away
[04:46.51]
[04:51.38] And in that quiet of death
[04:55.37]
[04:56.56] Ill say, right now.
[05:01.68]
[05:04.11] Right now!
[05:06.11]
[05:13.57] Then theyll pile up the bodies
[05:16.31]
[05:20.24] And Ill say,
[05:21.67] Thatll learn ya!
[05:24.05] And the ship
[05:35.84]
[05:38.46] The black freighter
[05:46.39]
[05:48.75] Disappears out to sea
[05:59.93]
[06:02.67] And
[06:05.17] On
[06:07.04] It
[06:08.10]
[06:10.97] Is
[06:12.72] Me