Four Women

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Four Women by Nina Simone

About Four Women

The jazz vocalist, composer, pianist, and arranger Nina Simone's song "Four Women" was included on the album Wild Is the Wind in 1966. There are four African American women whose stories are told. The four characters each stand in for a societal stereotype of African Americans. The song, in the words of Thulani Davis of The Village Voice, was "an instantly accessible analysis of the damning legacy of slavery, that made iconographic the real women we knew and would become." .

Four Women Lyrics

[00:11.14] My skin is black
[00:14.69]
[00:17.00] My arms are long
[00:20.99]
[00:25.19] My hair is woolly
[00:28.69]
[00:31.02] My back is strong
[00:34.02]
[00:36.48] Strong enough to take the pain
[00:41.85] Inflicted again and again
[00:48.02] What do they call me?
[00:51.91] My name is Aunt Sarah
[00:55.89]
[00:59.62] My name is Aunt Sarah, Aunt Sarah
[01:07.95]
[01:10.99] My skin is yellow
[01:15.97] My hair is long
[01:19.28]
[01:22.45] Between two worlds
[01:25.98]
[01:29.04] I do belong
[01:33.41] My father was rich and white
[01:38.15] He forced my mother late one night
[01:44.70] What do they call me?
[01:49.88] My name is Saffronia
[01:54.25]
[01:56.66] My name is Saffronia
[01:59.99]
[02:13.58] My skin is tan
[02:16.88]
[02:20.04] My hair is fine
[02:23.21]
[02:26.99] My hips invite you
[02:32.83] My mouth like wine
[02:36.29]
[02:38.86] Whose little girl am I?
[02:43.06] Anyone who has money to buy
[02:49.11] What do they call me?
[02:53.35] My name is Sweet Thing
[02:58.13]
[03:00.45] My name is Sweet Thing
[03:05.81]
[03:27.93] My skin is brown
[03:31.91]
[03:34.18] My manner is tough
[03:37.56]
[03:40.24] I'll kill the first mother I see
[03:46.19] My life has been rough
[03:51.32] I'm awfully bitter these days
[03:57.14] 'Cause my parents were slaves
[04:02.28] What do they call me?
[04:05.99]
[04:08.15] My name is Peaches
[04:17.46]

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