July 2010
4 posts
I Like Lyrics!: Nina Simone - Rags & Old Iron Lyrics →
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Norman curtis, oscar brown jr
Rags old iron rags old iron
All he was buying was just rags and old iron
I heard that old rag man now making his rounds
He came right to my alley lord with sorrowful sounds
Crying rags old iron and pulling his cart
Ask him how much he’d give me for my broken heart
…
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
Nina Simone
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free | Nina Simone
June 2010
35 posts
I Like Lyrics!: Nina Simone - Go to Hell Lyrics →
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Now if your mind lies in the Devil’s workshop
And evil duens your thrill
And trouble and mischief is all you live for
You know darn well
That you’ll go to hell
So you’re living high and mighty
Rich off the fat of the land
Just don’t dispose of your natural soul
‘cos you know darn well
That you’ll…
“Marriage is for old folks; cold folks.”
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Nina Simone
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Nina Simone - It Don’t Mean a Thing Lyrics
Irving mills, duke ellington
What good is melody, what good is music
If it ain’t possessin’ something sweet
It ain’t the melody, it ain’t the music
There’s something else that makes the tune complete
It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that swing
It don’t mean a thing, all you got to do is sing
It makes no diff’rence if it’s sweet or hot
Just give that rhythm ev’rything you got
It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that swing
I Like Lyrics!: Nina Simone - Another Spring Lyrics →
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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 a rocking chair talking to herself
And she used to say she used to say
Sometimes the cold gets in my…
