Lyrics 海賊ジェニー (1964年、NY カーネギーホールにてライヴ録音) - Nina Simone

海賊ジェニー (1964年、NY カーネギーホールにてライヴ録音)

You people can watch while IЂ™m scrubbing these floors
And IЂ™m scrubbinЂ™ the floors while youЂ™re gawking
Maybe once ya tip me and it makes ya feel swell
In this crummy southern town
In this crummy old hotel
But youЂ™ll never guess to who youЂ™re talkinЂ™.
No. you couldnЂ™t ever guess to who youЂ™re talkinЂ™.
Then one night thereЂ™s a scream in the night
And youЂ™ll wonder who could that have been
And you see me kinda grinninЂ™ while IЂ™m scrubbinЂ™
And you say, whatЂ™s she got to grin?
IЂ™ll tell you.
ThereЂ™s a ship
The black freighter
With a skull on itЂ™s masthead
Will be coming in
You gentlemen can say, hey gal, finish them floors!
Get upstairs! whatЂ™s wrong with you! earn your keep here!
You toss me your tips
And look out to the ships
But IЂ™m counting your heads
As IЂ™m making the beds
Cuz thereЂ™s nobody gonna sleep here, honey
Nobody
Nobody!
Then one night thereЂ™s a scream in the night
And you say, whoЂ™s that kicking up a row?
And ya see me kinda starinЂ™ out the winda
And you say, whatЂ™s she got to stare at now?
IЂ™ll tell ya.
ThereЂ™s a ship
The black freighter
Turns around in the harbor
ShootinЂ™ 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 frickinЂ™ 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.
ThatЂ™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 itЂ™s masthead
And a cheer rings the air
By noontime the dock
Is a-swarminЂ™ with men
CominЂ™ out from the ghostly freighter
They move in the shadows
Where no one can see
And theyЂ™re chaininЂ™ up people
And theyЂ™re bringinЂ™ em to me
AskinЂ™ me,
Kill them now, or later?
AskinЂ™ 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
IЂ™ll say, right now.
Right now!
Then theyЂ™ll pile up the bodies
And IЂ™ll say,
ThatЂ™ll learn ya!
And the ship
The black freighter
Disappears out to sea
And
On
It
Is
Me