Nina Simone Born 1933

Nina Simone music, if bold it is a cover to a white written song. if underscore it is a cover of a black song. Comprehend, covers are unique things, it matters who sings and provides instrumentals to any music. Don't anyone tell you otherwise.

 

I Loves You Porgy

I Put A Spell On You - complete album

My Baby Just Cares For Me

 

Little Girl Blue 

NOTE: Because she had sold her rights outright for $3,000, Simone lost more than $1 million in royalties (notably for the 1980s re-release of her version of the jazz standard "My Baby Just Cares for Me") and never benefited financially from the album's sales

 

Brown Baby

Brown Baby Oscar brown jr Brown baby brown baby As you grow up I want you to drink from the plenty cup I want you to stand up tall and proud And I want you to speak up clear and loud Brown baby brown baby brown baby As years go by I want you to go with your head up high I want you to live by the justice code And I want you to walk down freedom's road You little brown baby So lie away lie away spleeping lie away singing Lie away sleeping lie away safe in my arms Till your daddy and you mama protect you? nd keep you safe from harm Brown baby It makes me glad you gonna have things that I never had When out of men's heart all hate is hurled Sweetie you gonna live in a better world Brown baby brown baby brown baby

Lyrics by OScar Brown

Sin and Soul full album of OScar Brown

Zungo

Someone please find them, he is speaking a nigerian tongue

 by Michael Olatunji

Afro PErcussion full album by Michael Olatunji

 

Mississippi Goddam

Mississippi Goddam Alabama's gotten me so upset Tennessee made me lose my rest And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam Alabama's gotten me so upset Tennessee made me lose my rest And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam Can't you see it, can't you feel it It's all in the air I can't stand the pressure much longer Somebody say a prayer Alabama's gotten me so upset Tennessee made me lose my rest And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam If you know this song You can join in with us Hound dogs on my trail School children sitting in jail Black cat cross my path I think every day's gonna be my last Lord have mercy on this land of mine We all gonna get it in due time I don't belong here, I don't belong there I've even stopped believing in prayer Don't tell me, I tell you Me and my people just about due I've been there so I know They keep on saying "Go slow!" Well, that's just the trouble "Too slow" Washing the windows "Too slow" Picking the cotton "Too slow" You're just plain rotten "Too slow" Too damn lazy "Too slow" Thinking's crazy "Too slow" Where am I going What am I doing I don't know I don't know Just tryin' to do my very best Stand up be counted with all the rest Cause everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam You afraid of that word? Picket lines, school boy cots They try to say it's a communist plot All I want is equality For my sisters, my brothers, my people and me You lied to me all these years You told me to wash and clean my ears And talk real fine just like a lady You'd stop calling me Sister Sadie Oh but my country is full of lies You're all gonna die and die like flies Cause I don't trust you any more You keep on saying "Go slow!" That's just the trouble Too slow Desegregation Too slow Mass participation Too slow Reunification Too slow Do things gradually Too slow But bring more tragedy Too slow Why don't you feel it Why don't you see it I don't know I don't know You don't have to live next to me Just give me my equality Cause everybody knows about Mississippi Everybody knows about Alabama Everybody knows about Ronald Reagan Everybody knows about Margareth Tatcher Everybody knows about Ronald Reagan Everybody knows about Jesse Jackson Everybody knows about Michael Jackson Everybody knows about Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam Goddam

 

 

Lyrics by Nina Simone

 

Nina Simone In Concert Full Album

 

Four Women

 

My skin is black My arms are long My hair is woolly My back is strong Strong enough to take the pain Inflicted again and again What do they call me? My name is Aunt Sarah My name is Aunt Sarah, Aunt Sarah My skin is yellow My hair is long Between two worlds I do belong My father was rich and white He forced my mother late one night What do they call me? My name is Saffronia My name is Saffronia My skin is tan My hair is fine My hips invite you My mouth like wine Whose little girl am I? Anyone who has money to buy What do they call me? My name is Sweet Thing My name is Sweet Thing My skin is brown My manner is tough I'll kill the first mother I see My life has been rough I'm awfully bitter these days 'Cause my parents were slaves What do they call me? My name is Peaches

 

Lyrics by Nina Simone

 

Ain't Got No, I Got Life

NOTE: A medley of two songs "Aint Got No" + " I Got Life"

 

To be Young Gifted and Black

 

Young, gifted and black Oh what a lovely precious dream To be young, gifted and black Open your heart to what I mean In the whole world you know There's a million boys and girls Who are young, gifted and black And that's a fact! You are young, gifted and black We must begin to tell our young There's a world waiting for you Yours is the quest that's just begun When you feel really low Yeah, there's a great truth that you should know When you're young, gifted and black Your soul's intact To be young, gifted and black Oh, how I've longed to know the truth There are times when I look back And I am haunted by my youth Oh but my joy of today Is that we can all be proud to say To be young, gifted and black Is where it's at Is where it's at Is where it's at

 

 

Lyrics by Nina Simone + Weldone Irvine

 

LIVE 1969 - She  introduced the song on August 17, 1969, to a crowd of 50,000 at the Harlem Cultural Festival, captured on broadcast video tape and released in 2021 as the documentary film Summer of Soul.

I admit I like this song, lets have another live recording, Nina Simone was done with the recording industry anyway

Audio Recording

 

Yes, I can't listen to be young gifted and black and not shed a tear thinking on black people the world over against the various whites, and one more tear for my own tribe in the village in their naturally dangerous peccadillium/place of sin/U.S.A.

 

 

Nina Simone on Malcolm X
Malcolm X to me, was the most important , the most important spokesman we have ever had, in this country for black people, bar none, and everything he said i agreed with, everything he said, i agreed with, and I was absolutely... I am still not over the fact that he is gone, and I really would like to say that I think it is black people's fault that he is dead, just as it is black peoples fault that martin luther king is dead, they didn't give them any protection, they ran them away, they followed them, but they didn't protect them, they willing to die but they not willing to kill,  hey man, I get upset when I think about it, I get upset, and that is one of the reasons I don't live in this country, cause there is no protection

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my thoughts
Can I get an Amen. But Nina Simone's point is huge here. What Nina Simone is really saying is the Black Church, Historical Black Colleges+ Institutions, Black elected officials, Black business owners didn't protect Black advocates or black artists, and she is correct. 
I love how she said black people ran both Malcolm + martin away which I know from black people who lived in the 1960s is true, but you never hear from black people alive then in media today. The only two groups that honestly talked of honest protection were the panthers+ nation of islam. but the nation of islam outside Malcolm's leadership did it only for members. While the panthers were criminalized by black churches/black elected officials/black business owners for their stance on defense. So many black artist+ advocates were injured or attacked in the usa and never had any protection, and the black church being the most important black institution had to be most responsible.