Nina Simone

 

Ain't Got No, I Got Life

Simone, Dianne Reeves, Lizz Wright, Angélique Kidjo

 FOUR WOMEN

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

Nina Simone

Nina Simone

Revolution

And now we got a revolution
Cause i see the face of things to come
Yeah, your Constitution
Well, my friend, its gonna have to bend
I'm here to tell you about destruction
Of all the evil that will have to end.

Some folks are gonna get the notion
I know they'll say I'm preachin' hate
but if i have to swim the ocean
well i would just to communicate
its not as simple as talkin' jive
the daily struggle just to stay alive

Singin' about a revolution
because were talkin' about a change
its more than just evolution
well you know you got to clean our brain
the only way that we can stand in fact
is when you get your foot off our back

Nina Simone (USA)

 Sugar in my bowl