Pirate Jenny chords by
Lotte Lenya
Lotte Lenya

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

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