Álbum Live & Kickin de Nina Simone - Canciones

Live & Kickin

1988 |

Sello | Bellaphon

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Pirate JennyVer letra

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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.

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!

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
For A WhileVer letra

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Lost in day to day,

Turned another way

With a laugh, a kind hello

And some small talk with friends I know

I forget that I'm not over you for a while.

A wave, an easy grin,

A smile to put them in,

Got other lives to listen to

And some music that I have to do

I forget that I'm not over you for a while.

Days go by with no empty feeling,

Until I touch my hair and touch my skin

And remember you're gone.

People say to me, "hey Nina do you need some company?

When you have some time to spend,

Drop around-you need your friends."

They forget that I'm not over you for a while,

They forget that I'm not over you for a while.
You Took My Teeth
Sugar In My Bowl Small
Backlash BluesVer letra

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Mr. Backlash, Mr. Backlash

Just who do think I am

You raise my taxes, freeze my wages

And send my son to Vietnam

You give me second class houses

And second class schools

Do you think that alla colored folks

Are just second class fools

Mr. Backlash, I'm gonna leave you

With the backlash blues

When I try to find a job

To earn a little cash

All you got to offer

Is your mean old white backlash

But the world is big

Big and bright and round

And it's full of folks like me

Who are black, yellow, beige and brown

Mr. Backlash, I'm gonna leave you

With the backlash blues

Mr. Backlash, Mr. Backlash

Just what do you think I got to lose

I'm gonna leave you

With the backlash blues

You're the one will have the blues

Not me, just wait and see
Do What You Gotta DoVer letra

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Do what you gotta do

Come on back see me when you can

Man I can understand how it might be

Kinda hard to love a girl like me

I don't blame you much for wanting to be free

I just wanted you to know

I've loved you better that your own kin did

From the very start it's my own fault

What happens to my heart

You see I've always known you'd go

So you just do what you gotta do

My wild sweet love

Though it may mean that I'll never kiss

Those sweet lips again

Pay that no mind

Find that dappled dream of yours

Come on back and see me when you can

Now I know it'll make you feel sad

And make you feel so bad

They say you don't treat me me like you should

They got ways to make you feels no good

I guess they got no way to know

I've had my eyes wide open from the start

And man you never lied to me

The part of you that they'll never see

Is the part you've shown to me

So you just do what you gotta do

My wild sweet love

Though it may mean that I'll never kiss

Those sweet lips again

Pay that no mind

Find that dappled dream of yours

Come on back and see me when you can
Mississippi Goddamn
See Lime Woman
The Other WomanVer letra

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The other woman finds time to manicure her nails

The other woman is perfect where her rival fails

And she's never seen with pin curls in her hair

The other woman enchantes her clothes with French perfume

The other woman keeps fresh cut flowers in each room

There are never toys that's scattered everywhere

And when her own man comes to call on her

He'll find her waiting like a lonesome queen

Cos when she's by his side

It's such a change from old routine

But the other woman will always cry herself to sleep

The other woman will never have his love to keep

And as the years go by the other woman

Will spend her life alone

The other woman enchantes her clothes with French perfume

The other woman keeps fresh cut flowers in each room

There are never toys that's scattered everywhere

And when her own man comes to call on her

He'll find her waiting like a lonesome queen

Cos when she's by his side

It's such a change from old routine

But the other woman will always cry herself to sleep

The other woman will never have his love to keep

And as the years go by the other woman

Will spend her life alone
PorgyVer letra

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This song talk about the same Porgy

That we've talked about for two years now

His name is Porgy only this one was written by eh

Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh

I got my man now I got Porgy

My baby understands now I got my Porgy

I'm through with bymays his way is may way forever more

Lord when i feel his arms around me

Knowing he can't go on without me

I wants to beg for a chance to camp at his door

Say he's not much for to look and see

He's lazy and no count as he can be

He's got the kind of a love for me

So I'm changing my style my way of living

Glad I've stopped taking and started giving

I got my man got my Porgy now

Though you say he's not much for to look and see

He's lazy and no count as he can be

He's got the kind of a love for me

Oh oh baby I'm changing my style nad way of living

Glad I've stopped taking and started giving

I got my man I got my Porgy now
Four WomenVer letra

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My skin is black

My arms are long

My hair is woolly

My back is strong

Strong enough to take the pain

inflicted again and again

What do they call me

My name is AUNT SARAH

My name is Aunt Sarah

My skin is yellow

My hair is long

Between two worlds

I do belong

My father was rich and white

He forced my mother late one night

What do they call me

My name is SAFFRONIA

My name is Saffronia

My skin is tan

My hair is fine

My hips invite you

my mouth like wine

Whose little girl am I?

Anyone who has money to buy

What do they call me

My name is SWEET THING

My name is Sweet Thing

My skin is brown

my manner is tough

I'll kill the first mother I see

my life has been too rough

I'm awfully bitter these days

because my parents were slaves

What do they call me

My name is PEACHES
I Sing Just To Know I'm Alive
My Baby Just Cares For MeVer letra

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My baby don't care for shows

My baby don't care for clothes

My baby just cares for me

My baby don't care for cars and races

My baby don't care for high-tone places

Liz Taylor is not his style

And even Lana Turner's smile

Is somethin' he can't see

My baby don't care who knows

My baby just cares for me

Baby, my baby don't care for shows

And he don't even care for clothes

He cares for me

My baby don't care

For cars and races

My baby don't care for

He don't care for high-tone places

Liz Taylor is not his style

And even Liberace's smile

Is something he can't see

Is something he can't see

I wonder what's wrong with baby

My baby just cares for

My baby just cares for

My baby just cares for me

[Original lyrics]

My baby don't care for shows

My baby don't care for clothes

My baby just cares for me

My baby don't care for cars and races

My baby don't care for high-tone places

Liz Taylor is not his style

And even Lana Turner's smile

is somethin' he can't see

My baby don't care who knows it

My baby just cares for me

My baby don't care for shows

And he don't even care for clothes

My baby just cares for me

My baby don't care for cars and races

My baby don't care for

he don't care for high-tone places

I wonder what's wrong with baby

My baby just cares for

Just says his prayers for

My baby just cares for me