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