Pirate Jenny (Live At Carnegie Hall, New York, 1964)-Nina Simone

[00:00.000] 作词 : Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht/Marc Blitzstein [00:01.000] 作曲 : Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht/Marc Blitzstein [00:05.00]You people can watch while Im scrubbing these floors [00:07.62]And Im scrubbin the floors while youre gawking [00:10.04] [00:11.67]Maybe once ya tip me and it makes ya feel swell [00:14.80]In this crummy southern town [00:16.55]In this crummy old hotel [00:17.72] [00:18.54]But youll never guess to who youre talkin. [00:20.72] [00:22.03]No. you couldnt ever guess to who youre talkin. [00:27.41] [00:30.89]Then one night theres a scream in the night [00:34.95]And youll wonder who could that have been [00:37.82] [00:40.00]And you see me kinda grinnin while Im scrubbin [00:43.86] [00:44.93]And you say, whats she got to grin? [00:48.80] [00:49.55]Ill tell you. [00:50.73] [00:53.23]Theres a ship [00:56.78] [00:58.97]The black freighter [01:00.65] [01:02.84]With a skull on its masthead [01:07.27]Will be coming in [01:09.52] [01:15.45]You gentlemen can say, hey gal, finish them floors! [01:18.82]Get upstairs! whats wrong with you! earn your keep here! [01:21.74] [01:22.50]You toss me your tips [01:24.11]And look out to the ships [01:25.80]But Im counting your heads [01:27.92]As Im making the beds [01:29.67]Cuz theres nobody gonna sleep here, honey [01:32.98]Nobody [01:35.16]Nobody! [01:35.78]Then one night theres a scream in the night [01:52.07]And you say, whos that kicking up a row? [01:55.38] [01:56.75]And ya see me kinda starin out the winda [02:01.06]And you say, whats she got to stare at now? [02:06.92] [02:08.11]Ill tell ya. [02:09.30] [02:10.92]Theres a ship [02:14.92] [02:17.48]The black freighter [02:21.52] [02:22.15]Turns around in the harbor [02:27.52]Shootin guns from her bow [02:30.70] [02:35.82]Now [02:36.88]You gentlemen can wipe off that smile off your face [02:40.37]Cause every building in town is a flat one [02:43.05] [02:43.55]This whole frickin place will be down to the ground [02:47.36]Only this cheap hotel standing up safe and sound [02:51.16]And you yell, why do they spare that one? [02:54.28] [02:54.85]Yes. [02:56.10]Thats what you say. [02:57.09] [02:57.91]Why do they spare that one? [02:59.52] [03:00.96]All the night through, through the noise and to-do [03:09.94]You wonder who is that person that lives up there? [03:14.01] [03:15.19]And you see me stepping out in the morning [03:19.13] [03:19.93]Looking nice with a ribbon in my hair [03:25.74] [03:27.54]And the ship [03:35.63] [03:37.37]The black freighter [03:39.87] [03:42.06]Runs a flag up its masthead [03:45.61]And a cheer rings the air [03:47.42] [03:54.03]By noontime the dock [03:56.97]Is a-swarmin with men [03:59.15]Comin out from the ghostly freighter [04:03.33]They move in the shadows [04:06.14]Where no one can see [04:08.07]And theyre chainin up people [04:09.88] [04:10.44]And theyre bringin em to me [04:12.69]Askin me, [04:14.13]Kill them now, or later? [04:16.06] [04:17.56]Askin me! [04:18.50] [04:21.00]Kill them now, or later? [04:24.79] [04:28.36]Noon by the clock [04:32.04] [04:33.85]And so still by the dock [04:37.34] [04:39.46]You can hear a foghorn miles away [04:46.51] [04:51.38]And in that quiet of death [04:55.37] [04:56.56]Ill say, right now. [05:01.68] [05:04.11]Right now! [05:06.11] [05:13.57]Then theyll pile up the bodies [05:16.31] [05:20.24]And Ill say, [05:21.67]Thatll learn ya! [05:24.05]And the ship [05:35.84] [05:38.46]The black freighter [05:46.39] [05:48.75]Disappears out to sea [05:59.93] [06:02.67]And [06:05.17]On [06:07.04]It [06:08.10] [06:10.97]Is [06:12.72]Me