Pirate Jenny

Pirate Jenny easy guitar chords by Nina Simone

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E A D G B E

Capo

Fret 1

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Capo
  • Em

  • Aaug

  • F

  • Gm

    3
  • Eb#m

  • Cm

    3
  • Abm

    4
  • Ab

    4
  • Dm

  • D

  • Ebm

    6
  • C

  • Csus4

  • Bb

  • Bbm

  • Db

    4
  • B

    2
  • Cbb

  • G

  • Cdim

    3
  • Gb

    2
  • Cb

    2
  • Fdim

    3
  • Fm

  • Cbm

    2
  • F#

    2
  • Em

  • Aaug

  • F

  • Gm

    3
  • Eb#m

  • Cm

    3
  • Abm

    4
  • Ab

    4
  • Dm

  • D

  • Ebm

    6
  • C

  • Csus4

  • Bb

  • Bbm

  • Db

    4
  • B

    2
  • Cbb

  • G

  • Cdim

    3
  • Gb

    2
  • Cb

    2
  • Fdim

    3
  • Fm

  • Cbm

    2
  • F#

    2
  • Verse 1
    Em

    You people can watch while I'm

    scrubbing these floors

    And I'm scrubbin' the floors while
    Aaug

    you're gawking

    Maybe once you tip me and it

    makes you feel swell
    F
    Gm

    In this crummy Southern town
    Eb#m
    Cm
    Abm
    Ab

    In this crummy old hotel
    Cm

    But you'll never guess

    to who you're talkin'
    F
    Cm

    No, you couldn't ever guess
    Dm

    to who you're talkin'
    D
    Dm
    Verse 2

    Gm

    Then one night,
    Ebm

    there's a scream in the night
    Em
    F

    And you'll won der who
    Em
    Ebm

    could that have been

    And you see me kinda grinnin'
    Em
    C
    Cm

    while I'm scrubbin'

    And you say,
    Csus4

    "What's she got to grin?"
    Gm
    Em

    I'll tell you
    Verse 3
    Ebm

    There's a ship
    Bb
    Bbm
    Db

    The Black Freighter
    B
    Abm

    With a skull on its masthead
    Db
    F
    Cbb

    Will be coming in
    Em
    Verse 4


    You gentlemen can say, "Hey gal,

    finish them floors!
    G

    Get upstairs! What's wrong with
    F
    Dm

    you! Earn your keep here!

    You toss me your tips and look
    F

    out to the ships
    Cm
    Gm

    But I'm counting your heads as I'm making
    Cm

    the beds

    'Cause there's nobody

    gonna sleep here
    F
    Cm

    Tonight, nobody's gonna sleep
    F

    here, honey
    Bb
    F

    Nobody
    Em
    F

    Nobody
    Em
    Dm
    D
    Verse 5
    Dm
    F

    Gm
    Cm

    Then one night,
    Ebm
    Cdim

    there's a scream in the night
    Ebm
    Cm

    And you say, "Who's that kicking
    Ebm
    Cdim
    Ebm

    up a row?"
    Gb

    And you see me kinda starin'
    Cb
    C

    out the window
    Abm

    And you say, "What's she
    C

    got to stare at now?"
    Bb
    Em

    I'll tell you
    Ebm
    There's a ship
    Verse 6
    Gb
    Abm
    Ebm

    Bbm
    Em

    The Black Freighter
    Bb

    Turns around in the harbor
    Fdim
    Bb

    Shootin' guns from her bow
    Em
    Verse 7


    Now

    You gentlemen can wipe off that

    smile off your face
    G

    'Cause every building in town
    Aaug

    is a flat one
    F

    This whole frickin' place

    will be down to the ground
    C
    Gm

    Only this cheap hotel standing

    up safe and sound
    C
    F

    And you yell,
    Cm
    F

    "Why do they spare that one?"
    Cm

    Yes, that's what you say,
    F
    C
    D

    "Why do they spare that one?"
    Dm
    All
    Verse 8
    Gm

    the night through,
    Ebm

    through the noise and to- do
    Gm
    Cm
    F

    You won der who is that person
    Ebm

    that lives up there?
    Gb
    Abm
    F

    And you see me step ping out
    Fm
    F

    in the morning
    Dm
    Em
    F

    Looking nice with a ribbon in my hair,
    Ebm

    haha
    Ebm
    And the ship
    Verse 9

    Bbm
    Db

    The Black Freighter
    Ebm
    Abm
    Cbm

    Runs a flag up its masthead
    Cb
    F

    And a cheer rings in the air
    Bb
    Bbm
    Bb
    Verse 10
    Em

    By noontime,

    the dock is a- swarmin' with men

    Comin' out from the
    Aaug

    ghostly freighter
    Dm
    Aaug

    They're moving'in the shadows where
    Dm

    no one can see
    F
    C

    And they're chainin' up people,
    F
    Cm

    and they're bringin' em to me
    F
    Cm

    Askin' me, "Kill them now,
    Cdim
    Cm

    or later?"
    F
    Cm
    F

    Askin' me, "Kill them now,

    or later?"
    Gm
    C
    Noon
    Verse 11
    F
    C
    Cm

    by the clock and
    Ebm
    F
    Bb
    Ebm

    so still at the dock
    F
    Bb
    F
    Bb
    C
    F
    Ebm

    You can hear a foghorn miles away
    F
    Bb
    Bbm
    B
    B

    and in that quiet of death
    Ebm

    I'll say, "Right now,

    right now!"
    B
    Then they pile up the
    Verse 12

    bodies

    And I'll say, "That'll learn ya!"
    Verse 13
    Ebm
    F#

    And the ship
    Bbm
    F#

    The Black Freighter
    Abm

    Disappears out to sea

    And
    F#

    On
    F

    It

    Is
    Bb

    Me

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