NINA SIMONE - Pirate Jenny lyrics
rate me(1928) bertolt brecht, kurt weill<br><br>You people can watch while I'm scrubbing these floors<br>And I'm scrubbin' the floors while you're gawking<br>Maybe once ya tip me and it makes ya feel swell<br>In this crummy southern town<br>In this crummy old hotel<br>But you'll never guess to who you're talkin'.<br>No. you couldn't ever guess to who you're talkin'.<br><br>Then one night there's a scream in the night<br>And you'll wonder who could that have been<br>And you see me kinda grinnin' while I'm scrubbin'<br>And you say, what's she got to grin? <br>I'll tell you.<br><br>There's a ship<br>The black freighter<br>With a skull on it's masthead<br>Will be coming in<br><br>You gentlemen can say, hey gal, finish them floors!<br>Get upstairs! what's wrong with you! earn your keep here!<br>You toss me your tips<br>And look out to the ships<br>But I'm counting your heads<br>As I'm making the beds<br>Cuz there's nobody gonna sleep here, honey<br>Nobody<br>Nobody!<br><br>Then one night there's a scream in the night<br>And you say, who's that kicking up a row? <br>And ya see me kinda starin' out the winda<br>And you say, what's she got to stare at now? <br>I'll tell ya.<br><br>There's a ship<br>The black freighter<br>Turns around in the harbor<br>Shootin' guns from her bow<br><br>Now<br>You gentlemen can wipe off that smile off your face<br>Cause every building in town is a flat one<br>This whole frickin' place will be down to the ground<br>Only this cheap hotel standing up safe and sound<br>And you yell, why do they spare that one? <br>Yes.<br>That's what you say.<br>Why do they spare that one? <br><br>All the night through, through the noise and to-do<br>You wonder who is that person that lives up there? <br>And you see me stepping out in the morning<br>Looking nice with a ribbon in my hair<br><br>And the ship<br>The black freighter<br>Runs a flag up it's masthead<br>And a cheer rings the air<br><br>By noontime the dock<br>Is a-swarmin' with men<br>Comin' out from the ghostly freighter<br>They move in the shadows<br>Where no one can see<br>And they're chainin' up people<br>And they're bringin' em to me<br>Askin' me,<br>Kill them now, or later? <br>Askin' me!<br>Kill them now, or later? <br><br>Noon by the clock<br>And so still by the dock<br>You can hear a foghorn miles away<br>And in that quiet of death<br>I'll say, right now.<br>Right now!<br><br>Then they'll pile up the bodies<br>And I'll say,<br>That'll learn ya!<br><br>And the ship<br>The black freighter<br>Disappears out to sea<br>And<br>On<br>It<br>Is<br>Me
