Chords for Nina Simone: Pirate Jenny

_ _ _ And now this song is a story of _ a _ black freighter. _
It's on one of our albums from the Carnegie Hall album many years ago.
And it's a story, it's written by Bertolt Brecht and Kirk Vial in 1932.
And it's a story of Jenny in a flophouse in Germany.
_ We have transported Jenny _ to a flophouse in South Carolina.
_ [E] _ _ And Jenny has decided that [N] she's going to kill everybody this night.
_ Everybody that's coming to that flophouse, she's going to kill them and tomorrow she's going [Fm] home. _ _ _
_ Gentlemen can watch while I'm scrubbing these floors and I'm scrubbing the [G#] floors while you're gawking.
Maybe once you [D] tip me and it [G#] makes you feel [A] swell in this crummy [F#m] southern town, in this crummy old [F#m] hotel, [C#m] but you'll never guess to who you're talking. _ _
No, you'll never guess to who you're talking.
_ _ [D#] _
_ [G#m] Suddenly one night [C#m] there's a yell in the [G#m] night and you say, who's that [C#m] kicking up a row?
[Gm] And then you see me kind of grinning [F#m] while I'm scrubbing and you [Gm] say, what the hell she [Bm] got to grin for now?
I'll tell you [Em] there's a shooting.
_ The [Bm] black [D] freighter _ [C] with a skull on his _ [A] masthead will [E] be coming [B] in.
_ [Fm] _ _ _
_ _ You gentlemen can say, hey gal, finish them floors.
What the hell's wrong with you?
[D] Earn your [G#] keep here.
And you toss me your [D] tips and look out at the [G#] ships, [D#] but I'm [G] counting your heads as I'm making the beds.
[C#] Cause there's nobody going to [E] sleep here.
[C#m] Not tonight, honey. _ _ _ _
Nobody.
[E] _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [D#] _ _
[G#m] Suddenly one [C#m] night there's a yell in the [G#m] night and you say, [C#m] what the hell that have [Gm] been?
And then you see me kind [Bm] of staring out the window and you [Gm] say, what the hell she got [Bm] to stare at now?
[Em] I'll tell you there's a shooting.
_ The [Bm] black _ freighter turns [C] around in the harbor, [A] [B] shooting [F#] guns [E] from [B] her bow.
_ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _
Now you gentlemen can wipe off that smile off your face.
Cause every building in town [D] is a flat one.
[G#] This whole fricking place will be down to the [C#] ground.
Only this cheap hotel standing up, safe and [A] sound.
[C#m] And you yell, well why do they spare that one?
And you yell, why do [E] they [C#m] spare that one?
_ _ [D#] _ _ [G#m] All the night through, [C#m] through the noise and to do you [G#m] wonder, who's that person [C#m] that lives up there?
And [Gm] then you see me stepping out in [F#m] the morning, _ [G] looking nice with a ribbon in my [B] hair.
_ _ [Em]
And the ship, _ _ the [Bm] black _
[D] freighter, runs a [Am] [C] flag off his masthead [Am] and a [F#m] cheer [B] rings the air. _ _ _ _
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_ _ By noontime the dock is a swarming with men coming out of the [D] ghostly [G#] crater.
They're moving in the shadows where no one can see and [C#] they're chaining up people and they're bringing them to [B] me.
[A#] Asking me, kill them [E] now [C#m] or later.
[Gm] What you want [C#m] Nina?
_ _ _ Kill them now or later. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G#m] Noon by the [G] clock [G#m] and [F] so still [C] _ [G] at [A#] the dock [E] you [G#m] can hear _ a foghorn miles [C] away. _
_ _ And in that choir [Gm] _
of death _ [C] I'll say, [A#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] and they pile up the bodies [A#] and I'll [Gm] say, _
_ [Em] that'll learn you.
And _ the ship, _ _ _ the [Bm] black _ [D] freighter, _ _ _ [C] disappears _ out to sea _ _ _
[A] _ _ [Dm] and _ [F#] on it [E] _ _ is [B] me. _
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