Pirate Jenny Lyrics - Nina Simone

(1928) Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill 

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 talkin'. 

No. You couldn't ever guess to who you're talkin'. 

Then one night there's a scream in the night 

And you'll wonder who could that have been 

And you see me kinda grinnin' while I'm scrubbin' 

And you say, "What's she got to grin?" 

I'll tell you. 

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There's 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 there's nobody gonna sleep here, 

Tonight, nobodys gonna sleep here, honey 

Nobody 

Nobody! 

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Then one night there's 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. 

There's 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 

comin' out from the ghostly freighter 

They move in the shadows 

where no one can see 

And they're chainin' up people 

and they're bringin' em to me 

askin' me, 

"Kill them NOW, or LATER?" 

Askin' ME! 

"Kill them now, or later?" 

Noon by the clock 

and so still at the dock 

You can hear a foghorn miles away 

And in that quiet of death 

I'll say, "Right now. 

Right now!" 

Then they 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