Nina Simone
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Little Girl Blue
Sit there and count your fingers
What can you do
Old
girl you're through
Sit there, count your little fingers
Unhappy little
girl blue.
Sit there and count the raindrops
Falling on you
It's
time you knew
All you can ever count on
Are the raindrops
That fall on
little girl blue
Won't you just sit there
Count the little raindrops
Falling on you
'Cause it's time you knew
All you can ever count on
Are
the raindrops
That fall on little girl blue
No use old girl
You might as well surrender
'Cause your
hopes are getting slender and slender
Why won't somebody send a tender blue
boy
To cheer up little girl blue
Wild Is The Wind
Love me love me love me
Say you do
Let me fly away
With you
For my love is like
The wind
And wild is the wind
Give me more
Than one caress
Satisfy this
Hungriness
Let the wind
Blow through your heart
For wild is the wind
You...
Touch me...
I hear the sound
Of mandolins
You...
Kiss me...
With your kiss
My life begins
You're spring to me
All things
To me
Don't you know you're
Life itself
Like a leaf clings
To a tree
Oh my darling,
Cling to me
For we're creatures
Of the wind
And wild is the wind
So wild is the wind
You...
Touch me...
I hear the sound
Of mandolins
You...
Kiss me...
And your kiss
My life begins
That is spring to me
All things
To me
Don't you know you're
Life itself
Like a leaf clings
To a tree
Oh my darling,
Cling to me
For we're creatures
Of the wind
And wild is the wind
So wild is the wind
Wild is the wind
Wild is the wind
Wild is the wind
The Other Woman
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 - anywhere.
The other woman enchants her clothes with French perfume.
The other woman keeps fresh cut flowers in each room.
There are never toys
scattered anywhere...
And when her old man comes to call,
He'll find her waiting
like a lonesome queen.
'cause when she's by his side
it's such a change
from her old routine.
But...
The other woman will always cry herself to sleep.
The other
woman will never have his love to keep.
And, as years go by...
The other
woman will spend her real life alone.
Nobody
When life seems full of clouds and rain
I am filled with an
awkward pain
Who soothes my achin', thumpin' brain?
- Nobody
When winter comes with snow and sleet
I'm so tired with
cold feet
Who says: "Here's two bits Nina honey, go and eat?"
- Nobody
I ain't never done nothin' to nobody
I ain't never got
nothin' from nobody, no time
And until I get me somethin', yes, from
somebody, sometime
Well, I don't intend to do nothin'
For no body, no time
Now when winter comes all cool and clear
My friends they
see me comin' near
Who says: "Come on in child and have a beer?"
- Nobody
When all day long things go amiss
I go home to find some
bliss
Who hands to me a glowing kiss?
- Nobody
I ain't never done nothin' to nobody
I ain't never got
nothin' from no body - no time
And until I get me somethin', from somebody,
sometime
I don't intend to do nothin'
For no body, nobody, no time, no
time, no body, no time!
End Of The Line
This is the end of the line
I've clearly read ever sign
the way you glance at me
indifferently
and take your hand from mine
this is the end of the line
how can I ever be fine
how
helpless I've become
i feel like some discarded valentine
remeber in the biginniunfg
your winning ways excited me
and all the while I was certain
that we two found a love that comes just to a
few
we've reached the end of the line
I hope your dreams turn
out fine
I'm awfully tired
and so I guess I'll go
Although it's only
nine
but this is the end of the line
the end of the line
Something To Live For
I want something to live for
Someone to make my life an
adventurous dream
Oh, what wouldn't I give for
Someone who'd take my life
and make it seem
gay as they say it ought to be
Why can't I have love like that brought to me?
My eye is
watching the noon crowds
searching the promenades seeking a clue
To the
one who will someday be my
Something to live for
Something to live for
Something to live for
Blue Prelude
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
That's the reason that he's gone
And
left you black and blue
Hey yeah
Tell me what you gonna do now
They say he's left you all alone
To weather this old storm
He's got another woman now
Hangin' on his arm, yeah yeah yeah
That old
fool's tellin' everybody
He's sick and tired of you
Hey Lordy Lordy mama
What you gonna do
Hey yeah
Tell me what you gonna do
They say you love to fuss and fight
And bring a good man
down
And don't know how to treat him
They say you ain't behind him
And
just don't understand
And think that you're a woman
But actin' like a man
Hey Lordy mama
What you gonna do now
Get your nerves together, baby
And set the record straight
Set it straight
Let the whole round world know
It wasn't you
That cause
his bitter fate
All these years you loved him
And he knows it's true
'Cause what you're wantin'
For your man
Is what he's wantin', too
Hey
yeah
Tell me what you gonna do now
When you love a man enough
You're bound to disagree
'Cause ain't nobody perfect
'Cause ain't nobody free
Hey Lordy mama
Tell me what you gonna do
What you gonna do
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 million eyes
which ones are
yours?
where are you now
that yesterday has waved goodbye
and closed
it's doors
the night is so much darker
the wind is so much colder
the world is so much bigger
now that i am alone
papa, please forgive me
i know you understand me
papa,
don't you know i had no chose?
oh, can you hear me prayin'?
anything i'm
sayin'?
even though the night is filled with voices
i remember
everything you ever
taught me
evey book i've ever read
can all the
words,
all the music help me face what's ahead?
the trees are so much taller
i feel so much smaller
the
moon is twice as lonely
and the stars are half as bright
daddy, how i love you
daddy, how i need you
daddy, how i
miss you
kissing me goodnight
Single Woman
I live alone.
That hasn't always been easy to do.
But
just a single woman;
Some times as night the walls talk back to me.
They
seem to say
Wasn't yesterday, a better day.
Always alone at home or in a crowd;
A single woman out on
a private cloud;
Caught in a world few people understand.
I am what I
am….only one single woman.
There was a time…I can't remember when.
The house was full
of love but then again
It might have been imaginations plan,
Just to help
along,
One single Woman.
Mood Indigo
You ain't never been blue, no, no, no
You ain't never been
blue
Till you've had that mood indigo
That feeling goes stealing down to
my shoes
While I just sit here and sigh
Go along blues
I always get that mood indigo
Since my baby said goodbye
And in the evening when the lights are low
I'm so lonely I could cry
For
there's nobody who cares about me
I'm just a poor fool that's bluer than blue
can be
When I get that mood indigo
I could lay me down and die
You ain't never been blue, no, no, no
You ain't never been
blue
Till you've had that mood indigo
That feeling goes stealing down to
my shoes
While I just sit here and sigh
Go along blues
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