Pirate Jenny chords by
Lotte Lenya
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Key: Eb major

Verse 1
You gentlemen
can watch
while I'm scrubbing the floors,
and I'm scrubbing the floors
F F 
 
while you're gawking.
And maybe once you tip me
and it makes you feel swell,
D D 
 
Bm Bm 
 
on a ratty waterfront in a ratty
D D 
 
old hotel.
Em Em 
 
And you never guess to who you're talking,
you never guess to who
you're talking.
F#m F#m 
 
D D 
 
Suddenly one night
Gm Gm 
 
D D 
 
there's a scream in the night,
and you wonder
what could that have been.
Eb Eb 
 
Em Em 
 
And you see me kind of grinning
D D 
 
while I'm scrubbing,
Em Em 
 
Eb Eb 
 
an  d you wonder
D D 
 
what she got to grin.
A A 
 
Gm Gm 
 
D D 
 
And a ship, a black freighter,
Eb Eb 
 
with a skull on its masthead,
Cm Cm 
 
Bb Bb 
 
Gm Gm 
 
D D 
 
will be  com ing in.
B B 
 
You gentlemen can say,
hey girl, finish the floors,
Eb Eb 
 
get upstairs, make the beds,
F F 
 
earn your keep here.
Em Em 
 
You toss me your tips
F F 
 
D D 
 
and look out at the shifts,
but I'm counting your heads
while I make up the beds,
Em Em 
 
cause there's nobody
gonna sleep here.
Tonight, none of you will sleep here.
F#m F#m 
 
D D 
 
Then  that night,
Gm Gm 
 
there's a bang in the night,
D D 
 
and you yell,
who's there kicking up a row?
Eb Eb 
 
And you see me kinda
A A 
 
starin' out the window
Em Em 
 
Eb Eb 
 
And you say,
A A 
 
what's she got to stare at now?
D D 
 
Gm Gm 
 
D D 
 
And the ship, the black freighter
Eb Eb 
 
Turns around in the harbor
Cm Cm 
 
Bb Bb 
 
A A 
 
D D 
 
Shootin' guns from the bow
Then you gentlemen
can wipe off
that laugh from your face
B B 
 
F F 
 
Every building in town is a flat one
D D 
 
Your whole stinkin' place will
F F 
 
C#m C#m 
 
be down to the ground
D D 
 
Only this cheap hotel's there
and up seven sun
A A 
 
And you yell, why do
Em Em 
 
they spare that one?
And you say, why do they spare that one?
F#m F#m 
 
D D 
 
All the night through with
Gm Gm 
 
the noise and to -do
D D 
 
You wonder  who's
the person lives up there
Eb Eb 
 
F F 
 
Then you see me stepping out
D D 
 
Eb#m Eb#m 
 
into the morning
D D 
 
Eb Eb 
 
Gm Gm 
 
D D 
 
A A 
 
Looking nice with a ribbon in my hair
D D 
 
Gm Gm 
 
D D 
 
And the ship, the Black Freighter
Eb Eb 
 
Cm Cm 
 
Runs the flag up its masthead
Eb Eb 
 
A A 
 
D D 
 
An  d the cheering's there
By noontime the dark is all swarming
with men coming off of that
F F 
 
ghostly freighter.
They're moving in the shadows
where no one can see
Bm Bm 
 
D D 
 
and they're chaining up people
Bm Bm 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
and bringing them to me, asking me,
A A 
 
kill them now or later.
Em Em 
 
A A 
 
Em Em 
 
A A 
 
D D 
 
Asking me, kill them now or  later.
Bm Bm 
 
D D 
 
A A 
 
Noon by the clock,
Em Em 
 
Gm Gm 
 
and so still on the dock,
Bm Bm 
 
Em Em 
 
you can hear a fog
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
Gm Gm 
 
horn miles away.
Eb Eb 
 
A A 
 
D D 
 
A A 
 
In that quiet of death, I'll say, right now.
Eb Eb 
 
And they pile up the bodies,
A A 
 
A A 
 
I'll say, That'll earn ya.
D D 
 
Gm Gm 
 
D D 
 
Then the ship, the black freighter,
Eb Eb 
 
Disappears out to sea,
C C 
 
Bb Bb 
 
A A 
 
G G 
 
And  on  it is a me.

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