Artist: Roma Bahn
Author: Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill
Year: 1928
From the Three Penny Opera.
Covers:
Lotte Lenya [in film version]
Lys Gauty [as Fiancée du pirate]
Juliette Gréco [idem]
Lotte Lenya [as Pirate Jenny]
Corry Brokken [as Zeerover Jenny]
Nina Simone [as Pirate Jenny, with civil rights accents]
Judy Collins [idem]
Steeleye Span [as The Black Freighter]
Marc Almond [as Pirate Jenny]
Shilpa Ray with Nick Cave & Warren Ellis [as Pirate Jenny on Son Of Rogues Gallery]
Dylan was lyrically inspired for his When The Ship Comes In ('63).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)