Pirate Jenny and the Single Malt Revolution

(11 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

A ditty has occupied my head incessantly, continuously, importantly, for 2 days now, ever since Valtin mentioned something about watching it all come down from the vantage point aboard a boat, with single malt, in his essay, about how we are being force-fed shit, which also mentioned Berthold Brecht.  I’ve not been able to think of hardly anything else, except for Edger and Magic.  Pirate Jenny stomps out of Dreigrossenoper and into my head with the certainty of the stileto-staccato stride of Ahab.  I think it is my salvation.

And for that reason, I must say…follow me below the fold…

Und ein Schiff mit acht Segeln

Und mit fünfzig Kanonen

Wird liegen am Kai.

Please pardon my elitism rudeness with the deutsch … but it’s just so much

so-too-much prettier auf deutsch…So, here’s the English:

And a ship with eight sails

And with 50 cannons

Will lie in the bay

Jenny, you see, is a wage slave, the ultimate prol.   But she is more, she is so, so much more.  She serves their drinks in the tavern, makes their beds in the hotel and tells them they don’t know who she really is.  But she and her compatriot pirates will have their day, as the chorus lines continue:

And the ship with eight sails

And with fifty cannons

Will fire on the town.

…snip to next chorus…

And the ship with eight sails

And with fifty cannons

Will fly flags from its mast.

And the last stanza and chorus:

And hundreds will come ashore around noon

And will step into the shadows

And will catch anyone in any door

And lay him in chains and bring him before me

And ask: Which one should we kill?

And at that midday it will be quiet at the harbor

When they ask, who has to die.

And then they’ll hear me say: All of them!

And when the heads roll, I’ll say: Hoopla!

And the ship with eight sails

And with fifty cannons

Will disappear with me.

Read complete lyrics in both English and Germanright here

See ya aboard the Jolly Roger with single malt and red whiskey!

Garrhh!,

Pirate Jenny