[00:00.47]Artist:nina simone [00:01.10]Songs Title:pirate jenny [00:01.29] [00:01.47] [00:01.59](1928) bertolt brecht, kurt weill [00:02.98] [00:04.23]You people can watch while Im scrubbing these floors [00:07.41]And Im scrubbin the floors while youre gawking [00:09.72] [00:11.74]Maybe once ya tip me and it makes ya feel swell [00:14.87]In this crummy southern town [00:16.69]In this crummy old hotel [00:17.95] [00:18.58]But youll never guess to who youre talkin. [00:20.71] [00:22.16]No. you couldnt ever guess to who youre talkin. [00:27.29] [00:31.03]Then one night theres a scream in the night [00:35.24]And youll wonder who could that have been [00:37.85] [00:40.10]And you see me kinda grinnin while Im scrubbin [00:43.63] [00:45.44]And you say, whats she got to grin? [00:48.99] [00:50.17]Ill tell you. [00:51.00] [00:53.27]Theres a ship [00:56.77] [00:59.08]The black freighter [01:03.29]With a skull on its masthead [01:06.61] [01:07.24]Will be coming in [01:08.62] [01:15.57]You gentlemen can say, hey gal, finish them floors! [01:19.00]Get upstairs! whats wrong with you! earn your keep here! [01:21.87] [01:22.75]You toss me your tips [01:24.37]And look out to the ships [01:26.24]But Im counting your heads [01:28.15]As Im making the beds [01:29.83]Cuz theres nobody gonna sleep here, honey [01:32.26] [01:38.94]Nobody [01:40.00] [01:42.24]Nobody! [01:42.68] [01:48.42]Then one night theres a scream in the night [01:52.29]And you say, whos that kicking up a row? [01:55.30] [01:57.14]And ya see me kinda starin out the winda [02:00.70] [02:03.76]And you say, whats she got to stare at now? [02:07.27] [02:08.33]Ill tell ya. [02:09.26] [02:11.26]Theres a ship [02:15.18] [02:17.82]The black freighter [02:19.84] [02:22.73]Turns around in the harbor [02:27.61]Shootin guns from her bow [02:29.86] [02:36.13]Now [02:37.13]You gentlemen can wipe off that smile off your face [02:40.68]Cause every building in town is a flat one [02:43.13] [02:43.87]This whole frickin place will be down to the ground [02:47.66]Only this cheap hotel standing up safe and sound [02:50.92] [02:51.56]And you yell, why do they spare that one? [02:54.35] [02:55.30]Yes. [02:55.86] [02:56.61]Thats what you say. [02:57.55] [02:58.44]Why do they spare that one? [03:02.43] [03:05.90]All the night through, through the noise and to-do [03:09.35] [03:10.24]You wonder who is that person that lives up there? [03:13.87] [03:15.55]And you see me stepping out in the morning [03:19.42] [03:21.42]Looking nice with a ribbon in my hair [03:25.23] [03:32.00]And the ship [03:35.74] [03:37.80]The black freighter [03:41.79] [03:42.48]Runs a flag up its masthead [03:44.67] [03:45.68]And a cheer rings the air [03:47.36] [03:55.70]By noontime the dock [03:57.15] [03:57.90]Is a-swarmin with men [03:59.52]Comin out from the ghostly freighter [04:01.84] [04:04.49]They move in the shadows [04:06.04] [04:06.55]Where no one can see [04:08.60]And theyre chainin up people [04:10.86]And theyre bringin em to me [04:13.17]Askin me, [04:13.99] [04:14.63]Kill them now, or later? [04:16.42] [04:17.92]Askin me! [04:18.55] [04:21.41]Kill them now, or later? [04:24.67] [04:28.69]Noon by the clock [04:33.40] [04:34.15]And so still by the dock [04:37.51] [04:39.88]You can hear a foghorn miles away [04:46.67] [04:51.69]And in that quiet of death [04:55.44] [04:56.89]Ill say, right now. [05:01.41] [05:04.61]Right now! [05:05.68] [05:13.85]Then theyll pile up the bodies [05:16.34] [05:19.03]And Ill say, [05:19.93] [05:20.74]Thatll learn ya! [05:21.61] [05:24.24]And the ship [05:28.56] [05:39.00]The black freighter [05:42.12] [05:49.05]Disappears out to sea [05:53.93] [06:03.00]And [06:04.81] [06:05.50]On [06:07.50]It [06:08.56] [06:11.30]Is [06:13.18]Me