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VERSURI NINA SIMONE
| Nina Simone - Alone Again (Naturally) |
| Nina Simone, Gilbert O'Sullivan
I remember this afternoon
When my sister came into the room
She refused to say how my father was
But I knew he'd be dying soon.
And I was oh so glad, and it wa |
| Nina Simone - Angel Of The Morning |
| Chip Taylor
there'll be no strings to bind you hands
Not if my love can bind your heart
And theres no need to take a stand
For it was I who chose to start
I see no reason to take me home
I'm old enou |
| Nina Simone - Another Spring |
| Angelo Badalamenti, John Clifford
Old people talk to themselves
When they sit all 'round all day
This old woman I knew
I used to go over there and sit with her
And she'd be sitting around
In |
| Nina Simone - Assignment Sequence |
| Hendin
The assignment the assignment okay
Not too loud now not too loud
The song is called the assignment
Talks about the lover's gap
Tha gap between lovers
Especially in marriage and other |
| Nina Simone - Backlash Blues |
| Langston Hughes, Nina Simone
Mr. Backlash, Mr. Backlash
Just who do think I am
You raise my taxes, freeze my wages
And send my son to Vietnam
You give me second class houses
And second class |
| Nina Simone - Ballad Of Hollis Brown |
| (1963) Bob Dylan
Hollis Brown
He lived on the outside of town
Hollis Brown
He lived on the outside of town
With his wife and five children
And his cabin fallin' down
You looked for work and |
| Nina Simone - Black Swan |
| (1947) Gian Carlo Menotti
The sun is falling and it lies in blood
The moon is weaving bandages of gold
Old Black Swan where oh where is my lover now
Where oh where is my lover now
Torn and ta |
| Nina Simone - Blue Prelude |
| Gordon Jenkins, Joe Bishop
Let me sigh, let me cry when I'm blue,
Let me go away from this lonely town,
Won't be long till my sun will be blue,
Cos I know I'm on my last go round.
All the lov |
| Nina Simone - Blues For Mama |
| Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone
Hey Lordy mama
I heard you wasn't feeling' good
They're spreadin' dirty rumors
All around the neighborhood
They say you're mean and evil
And don't know what to do
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| Nina Simone - Bye Bye Blackbird |
| Fletcher Henderson, Dixon
Pack up all my cares and woe, here I go, singing
low,
Bye-bye Blackbird.
Where somebody waits for me, sugar's sweet, so is
she,
Bye-bye Blackbird.
No one here can lo |
| Nina Simone - For Myself |
| For myself
I must learn for myself
Not from what someone else
Has said or done
And so I live my life
From day to day
Try to smile
While feeling my way
Just like a child
For myself
I must learn f |
| Nina Simone - He Needs Me |
| Arthur Hamilton
He needs me
He doesn't know it, but he needs me
And so no matter where he goes
Though he doesn't care
He knows that I'm here
He needs me
I ought to leave him, but he needs m |
| Nina Simone - Human Touch, The |
| No one seems to care as much
No time to smile, laugh or cry as much
Have we lost the touch that means so much
Have we lost the human touch
No one wants to be alone
To walk or talk and sleep and weep a |
| Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You |
| (1949) Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Slotkin
I put a spell on you
'Cause you're mine
You better stop the things you do
I ain't lyin'
No I ain't lyin'
You know I can't stand it
You're runnin' aroun |
| Nina Simone - I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl |
| I want a little sugar
in my bowl
I want a little sweetness
down in my soul
I could stand some lovin'
Oh so bad
I feel so funny and I feel so sad
I want a little steam
on my clothes
Maybe I can fix |
| Nina Simone - Just In Time |
| (1960) Jule Styne, Adolph Green, Betty Comden
Let's go
Just in time you found me just in time
Before you came my time was running low
I was lost them losing dice were tossed
My bridges all were cross |
| Nina Simone - Keeper Of The Flame |
| I'm the keeper of the flame
My torch of love lights his name
Ask no pity, beg my shame(?)
I'm the keeper of the flame
Played with fire and I was burn
Gave a heart but I was spurn
All these time I ha |
| Nina Simone - Little Liza Jean |
| Traditional
Where is my tambourine wait a minute I'll get
your tambourine
Got my tambourine get your thing baby
What's wrong with you what is it you want
Can't forget my tambourine boy want a |
| Nina Simone - Love Me Or Leave Me |
| Love me or leave me and let me be lonely
You won't believe me but I love you only
I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else
You might find the night time the right time for
kissing
Night-time |
| Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddam |
| (1963) Nina Simone
The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddam
And I mean every word of it
Alabama's gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
Al |
| Nina Simone - My Way |
| (1968) Jacques Revaux, Claude François,
Gilles Thibault, Paul Anka
And now, the end is near and so I got to face
The final curtain, girl
Friends I say clear and state her case of which
I |
| Nina Simone - New World Coming |
| There's a new world commin'
And it's just around the bend
There's a brand new mornin'
That belongs to you and me
A nwe world commin'
The one we had vision of
And its commin' in peace
Is commin in jo |
| Nina Simone - Ooh Child |
| (1970) Stan Vincent
O-o-h child things are gonna get easier
O-o-h child things 'll get brighter
O-o-h child things are gonna get easier
O-o-h child things 'll get brighter
Someday we'll get i |
| Nina Simone - Other Woman |
| Jesse Mae Robinson
The other woman finds time to manicure her nails
The other woman is perfect where her rival fails
And she's never seen with pin curls in her hair
The other woman enchantes h |
| Nina Simone - Papa, Can You Hear Me |
| papa, can you hear me?
papa, can you see me?
papa, can you find me in the night?
papa, are you near me?
papa, can you hear me?
papa, can you help me not be frightened?
looking at the skies i see a m |
| Nina Simone - Pirate Jenny |
| (1928) Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill
You people can watch while I'm scrubbing these
floors
And I'm scrubbin' the floors while you're gawking
Maybe once ya tip me and it makes ya feel swell
In thi |
| Nina Simone - Plain Gold Ring |
| Earl S. Burroughs
Plain gold ring on his finger he wore
It was where everyone could see
He belonged to someone, but not me
On his hand was a plain gold band
Plain gold ring has a story to tel |
| Nina Simone - Pusher |
| (1970) Hoyt Axton
You know I smoked a lot of grass,Oh Lord
And I popped a lot of pills
But I never did touch nothing
That my spirit couldn't kill
You know I see a lot of people walkin' round
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| Nina Simone - Revolution (part 1) |
| 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
Im here to tell you about destruction
Of all the evil that will hav |
| Nina Simone - Spring Is Here |
| Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
Sprinh is here
Why doesn't my heart go dancing
Spring is here
Why isn't the waltz entrancing
No desire no ambition leads me
Maybe it's becaus nobody needs me
Sp |
| Nina Simone - Suzanne |
| Leonard Cohen
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the
river
You can hear the boats go by
You can spend the night beside her
And you know that she's half crazy
But that's why you want to |
| Nina Simone - To Love Somebody |
| (1967) Robin Gibb, Barry Gibb
There' a light
A certain kind of light
It's never shown on me
I want my whole life to be
Lived with you
Lived with you
There's a way
Everybody says
Do each and every |
| Nina Simone - Tomorrow Is My Turn |
| Though some may reach for the stars
Others will end behind bars
What the future has in store no one ever knows
before
Yet we would all like the right to find the key to
success
That elusive ray of ligh |
| Nina Simone - Turn Me On |
| Like a flower waiting to bloom
like a light bulb in a dark room
I am sitting here waiting for you to come home and
turn me on
like the desert waiting for rain
like a school kid waiting for spring
I am |
| Nina Simone - Turn! Turn! Turn! |
| Pete Seeger
To everything, turn, turn, turn
There is a season, turn, turn, turn
And a time for every purpose under heaven
A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A t |
| Nina Simone - Who Knows Where The Time Goes |
| (1966) Sandy Denny
Across the evening sky, all the birds are
leaving
But how can they know it's time for them to go?
Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming
I have no thought of time
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| Nina Simone - Work Song |
| Oscar Brown jr, Nat Adderley
Breaking rocks out here on the chain gang
Breaking rocks and serving my time
Breaking rocks out here on the chain gang
Because they done convicted me of crime
Hol |
| Nina Simone - You Better Know It |
| (1956) Duke Ellington, Straylor
I belong to you and I know I show it
You belong to me baby you'd better know it
Give me all your love sugar spice and sweet honey
Don't you ever quit
Not for l |
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