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
https://www.tumblr.com/afriblaq/764152297355984896
https://www.tumblr.com/afriblaq/764152297355984896
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.