NINA SIMONE TRIBUTE

[Music] thank you brown baby [Music] Brown baby [Music] thank you as you grow up I want you to drink from the Plenty cup I want you to stand up tall and proud I want you to speak up clear and loud please your little brown baby foreign [Music] baby brown baby brown baby and she is goodbye I want you to go with your head held high height I want you to live by the Justice Gold [Music] I want you to walk down [Music] little girlfriend baby [Music] so lie away lie away sleeping Fly Away [Music] sleeping lie awake safe in mind [Music] [Music] I am your mama protect you [Music] and keep you safe from home [Music] you little brown baby [Music] brown baby Brown baby it makes me glad foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you a little round baby [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] four negro women one each one with a different color each one with a different grade of hair [Music] and one of the women's hair is like mine [Music] each one with a different background for women [Music] [Music] [Music] my skin is black [Music] my eyes are long [Music] my hair is [Music] but my back is strong strong enough to take all this pain that's been inflicted again and again and again [Music] what do they call me they call me Sarah [Music] old and feeble now they still call me and Sarah [Music] [Music] my skin is yellow [Music] my hair is long between two words I do belong you see my father was rich and white he forced my mama late one night [Music] what do they call me hey Mr fronia [Music] [Music] my skin is [Music] fine [Music] my hips invite you to Daddy [Music] my mouth is like white [Music] whose little girl am I yeah as if you have some money to buy what do they call me they call me sweet thing [Music] [Music] my skin is brown foreign [Music] my name is Peaches [Music] [Applause] The Ballad of Hollis Brown thank you Alice Brown is a man who's very poor he's so poor that everybody is starving in his family and he has five children and we leave it like that and tell you the story of Hollis Brown what happens to him the second tune is cold tomorrow is my turn tomorrow is my turn was written by Charles aznavour which you know him here in Europe and I have turned it into a protests so tomorrow's Mountain [Music] but we've practiced it [Music] Hollis Brown he lived on the outside of town [Music] Hollis man he lived on the outside of town [Music] with his wife and five children in this cabin broken down [Music] well he looked for working money and he walked around [Music] yes he looked for working money yeah yeah his children are so hungry don't know how to smile [Music] [Music] the wraps have got your flower bad blood is got your man [Music] rats have got your flower bad blood is got your man is there anyone who knows is there anyone who cares [Music] so we pray to the Lord above please send your friend [Music] yes you pray you pray the Lord above please send you a friend let your empty Pockets tell you that you ain't got no friends [Music] the grass is turning black there's no water in your well you'll spend your last long Dollar on a seven shotgun shells [Music] your baby's eyes look crazy it's a tugging at your sleeve [Music] your baby's eyes look crazy [Music] Every Breath You Breathe [Music] who cares about me sending you a friend [Music] driving rain [Music] way out in the wilderness calls [Music] your eyes become the shotgun that's up hanging on the wall yeah yeah yeah [Music] seven reasons [Music] beautiful seven seven shots ring out like the oceans found in roads yeah yeah yeah yeah [Music] yeah yeah and seven people dead Upon A South Dakota farm [Music] seven people dead on a South Dakota fire somewhere in the distance [Music] and seven new people boom [Music] [Applause] thank you [Applause] [Music] those who may Reach for the Stars will end Behind Bars [Music] but the future hasn't stored No One Ever Knows before [Music] no time may help you forget all that is happening for ever it's too late to regret [Music] what is gone will be no more [Music] tomorrow is my turn no more doubts no more fears tomorrow is my time my luck is returning all these years I've been learning to say fingers from burning tomorrow is my turn no more doubts no more fears tomorrow is my turn to receive without giving to make life worth the living for It's my life I'm living and my only concern for tomorrow is my turn [Music] when summer is gone good [Music] there's another way to come [Music] you can't stop ears Drifting by then [Music] though time may help you forget all that has happened thank you [Music] sweetheart it's too late to regret [Music] what is good will be no more [Music] tomorrow is my turn no more doubts no more fears tomorrow it's my turn when my luck is returning all these years I've been learning say fingers from burning except tomorrow is my time no more doubts no more fears tomorrow is my time without giving [Music] make life worth my living [Music] God porridge my life I'm living tomorrow is my turn or doubts no more fears tomorrow is my turn all my love to be returning all these years I've been learning how to save fingers from burning tomorrow is my turn no more doubts no more fears tomorrow is my turn without giving to make life worth the living or it's my life I'm living [Music] [Music] oh tomorrow always [Music] [Music] thank you this tune is called images it is a poem written by a negro poet named Warren CUNY it's very short and it's about a negro made images tomorrow is my turn [Music] and tomorrow is my time to receive without giving to make life with my living [Music] is my only concern [Music] it's tomorrow is my time she does not know how Beauty she thinks her Brown body has no glory if she could dance naked under palm tree and see her image in the river she would know but there are no palm trees on the street palm trees on the street and dishwater gives back no images [Music] [Music] if she could dance naked under palm trees and see her image in the river she would know but there are no palm trees on her stream no palm trees on our stream no palm trees on a stream this water gives back no images [Applause] the next two are the last two and the first one is called go limp um and when we get in the middle of it I'm I'm gonna talk to you again and see how you feel about joining me we'll see how the atmosphere feels but then and then we'll end with the Mississippi goddamn which of course has no explanation you know oh Mother Dear Mother take one in from me and don't you go marching with the NAACP [Music] you know that one four Bale Rocky rock and roll you roll you and shove you into bed and if they steal your nuclear secrets you wish it was there [Music] you ready lion [Music] mama know I'm not afraid I'll go on that much and return a virgin made [Music] with a brick in my handbag and a skull on my face barbed wire in my underwear to off disgrace foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] okay all right I know where I am now one day at a meeting a young man came by with a beard on his chin and I'm gleaming [Music] and before she had time to remember her break [Music] you got it you got it they were holding us sit down on a neighboring Harry [Music] [Music] one day at a briefing she'd heard a man say go perfectly limp and be the way so before this young chap suggested it was time she was kissed she remembered her briefing and did not resist [Music] ance [Music] [Laughter] you got the last note that's beautiful beautiful too much oh meeting is pleasure and potting is pain and after my next number I won't sing No More again I'm sick and I'm sore from sleeping three nights on a hard classroom floor [Music] thank you sing into [Applause] something else I only had to show you once too that's a strange well we got one more verse [Music] no I'm not afraid [Laughter] for that young man has left me his name and address [Music] and if we win the little baby baby well it won't happen to March [Music] foreign [Music] Alabama's got me so upset California's made me lose my rest everybody knows about Mississippi God damn can't you see it I know you can feel it it's all in the air I can't stand this pressure much longer somebody say a prayer Alabama's got me so upset in Tennessee has made me lose my rest everybody knows about Mississippi [Music] foreign [Music] children sitting in jail black cat crossed my path I think every day is gonna be my last [Music] Lord have mercy on this land of mind we all gonna get it in time I don't belong here I don't belong there I've even stopped believing in prayer [Music] don't tell me I'll tell you me and my people just about to I've been there so I know they keep on saying go slow that's what they say I go slow not switch to troubles windows [Music] [Applause] [Music] where am I going what am I doing your very best [Music] [Music] thank you pick it line school boycotts they try to say it's a communist plot but all I want is equality for my sister my brother my people and me [Music] my people and me you lied to me all these years you told me to wash and clean my ears and talk real bad just like a lady and you'd stop calling me sister Sadie stop but my country's full of lies we all gonna die in the light blue eyes cause I don't trust nobody anymore we keep on saying go slow [Music] yeah that's what they say [Music] well that's just the trouble desegregations Mass participation [Music] do things gradually why don't you feel it I don't know I don't know you don't have to live next to me just give me my equality everybody knows about this is [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] if your mind lies in the devil's workshop evil doings you thrill and traveling Mischief is all you live for you know damn well that you go to hell yeah [Music] now you're living high and mighty reach off the fat of the land just don't dispose of your natural Soul love cause if you do you know damn well that you go to hell yes you will [Music] help keep your children from doing wrong if you can cause you know damn well hey that they'll go down [Music] thank you man and woman were created my eternity [Applause] [Music] some say that hell is below us I say it's right by my side to see evil in the morning evil in the evening all the time you know damn well that we all must be in here please [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh must be must be in hell [Music] oh [Music] [Music] is there so much coldness [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] ain't got no home ain't got no shoes ain't got no money ain't got no class ain't got no skirts ain't got no sweaters ain't got no perfume I think I know love ain't got no faith I ain't got no culture I think I know father ain't got no brother ain't got no children Ain't Got No Hands ain't got no uncles ain't got no love ain't got no mind I Ain't Got No Country ain't got no schooling ain't got no friends [Music] ain't got no money [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] and bad times [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I got my freedom [Applause] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] second class schools I know you think all colored people are just second-class fools Mr backlash I'm Gonna Leave You with the Blues [Music] [Applause] [Music] but the world is big big and bright and round and it's full of other folks like me who a black yellow beige and brown it's the back line I'm Gonna Leave [Music] yes I am thank you [Music] thank you thank you [Music] [Music] I tell you when Langston huge when he died he told me many times before he said Nina keep on working till they open up a door now when you finally made it and the doors are open wide make sure you tell them exactly where it's at so they'll have no other place to hide [Music] I'm Gonna Leave thank you thank you [Applause] [Music] this fell on you [Music] because you man yeah foreign [Music] [Music] it is [Music] because [Music] [Applause] [Applause] we're doing the requests now we're doing the things that we think will please you the most at least for the next four minions [Music] as you know the animals had a hit with this chill [Music] thank you baby you understand me now [Music] if sometimes you see that I'm mad no one can always be an angel when everything goes wrong you see some bad I'm just a soul Who's intentions [Music] misunderstood [Music] don't let me be [Music] [Music] [Music] cause if I misunderstood all my life [Music] I don't want to come here [Music] [Music] give me the words to say what I mean [Music] let me see [Music] [Applause] again we want to thank you for coming to see us and I believe [Music] so hard to find we're going to leave you with a tune written by Gene Taylor a basis distribute turns out the Martin Luther King peace of mind okay [Music] once upon this planet Earth living preaching love and freedom [Music] for his fellow man he was dreaming of the day peace [Music] spread the message all across the land [Music] turn the other cheeky please love the neighbor was his creep hang humiliation and death he did not dread [Music] the ends with his Bible by his side from his foes he would not hide hot the things [Music] and he knew he could not stop [Music] always [Music] what's gonna happen [Music] will the murders ever cease are they men are they beasts for the people what do they think they have to gain well will your nation stand up out is it too late and did Martin Luther King you know that he was Far equality for all people you and me full of love and good will praise [Music] so tell me honey tell me if you can why was he shot down the other day it was prejudice it was hate a bigotry to see his face [Music] your tears won't change will my country ever love who must have killed at every time we've got to know by now it was a consequences [Music] [Music] hear me now what will happen now what's gonna happen now that's the king of love [Music] [Music] thank you [Applause] my people and me you lied to me all these years you told me to wash and clean my ears and talk real bad just like a lady if you'd stop calling me sister Sadie talk with my countries full of lies we all gonna die and die like lies cause I don't trust nobody anymore we keep on saying go slow yeah that's what they say [Music] Mass participation oh new things [Music] [Music] no you don't have to live next to me just give me my equality everybody knows everybody knows about this is [Music]

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Length: 63min 22sec (3802 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 19 2016