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

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