Pirate Jenny chords by
Marc Almond
Marc Almond
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Key: B minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Ahh you people can watch
while I'm scrubbing these floors
And I'm scrubbing these floors
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while you're gawking
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Maybe once you tip me
and it makes you feel swell
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In this crummy southern town
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In this pit of hotel
But you'll never guess
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to who you're talking
No
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You'll never guess to
who you're talking
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Verse 2
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Then one night there's
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a scream in the night
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And you wonder: "Who could
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Dm
Dm

that have been?"
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And you see me kind of grinning
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while I'm scrubbing
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Bbm
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And you say "What she got to grin?"
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Bm
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I'll tell ya
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Am
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There's a ship
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The black freighter
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With a skull on it's mast- head
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Will be coming in
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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C#

You gentlemen say: "Hey gal,
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finish them floors
What's wrong with you? Earn
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your keep here"
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You toss me your tips and
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look to the ships
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But I'm counting your heads
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as I'm making the beds
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'Cause there's nobody
gonna sleep here tonight
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No
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Nobody
No- one
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No- one
Verse 4
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Then one night there's
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D
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a scream in the night
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Bm

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And you say: "Who's
Dm
Dm

that kicking up a row?"
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And you see me kinda staring
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out the win dow
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And you say: "What she got
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to stare at now?"
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Bm
Bm

I'll tell ya
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There's a ship
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Bm
Bm

The black freighter
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Turns around in the harbour
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Shooting guns from her bow
Interlude 2
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Verse 5
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Well you gentlemen can wipe those
smiles off your face
'Cause every building
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in town is a flat one
This whole frigging place will
be down to the ground
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Eb

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Only this cheap hotel stand
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ing up, safe and sound
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And you yell: "Why do
they spare that one?
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"Why?
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"Why the hell do they
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spare that one?"
Verse 6
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All the night through with
the noise and to do
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And you wonder: "Who is that
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person that lives up there?"
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And you see me stepping out
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in the morning
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Looking fine with a rib
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bon in my hair
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Bm
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Well just look at me now
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E
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And a ship
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Bm

The black freighter
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Runs a flag up it's mast- head
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And a cheer rings the air. Hey!
Interlude 3
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My? on the dock
Verse 7
is
a swarming with men
Coming out from the ghostly
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freighter
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They're moving in the shad
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ows where no- one can see
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And they're chaining up people
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And delivering 'em to me
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Asking me: "Kill them now
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or later?"
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Asking me: "Kill them now
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or later?"
Interlude 4
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Noon by the clock and so still
Verse 8
Bm
Bm

at the dock
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You can hear a fog horn
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miles away
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And in that quiet of death I'll say:
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"Right now!"
"Right now!"
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And they pile up the bodies
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And I'll say: "That'll
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learn you.
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That'll learn you."
Verse 9
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And the ship
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Bm

The black freighter
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Disappears out to sea
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An d
On
It
Is
Me!

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