Ain’t Got No …/ I Got Life [live version] lyrics
Ain’t Got No …/ I Got Life [live version] lyrics
Ain’t Got No …/ I Got Life (lyrics for the live version performed at the Harlem Festival, New York, 1969)
Ain’t got no home
Ain’t got no shoes
Ain’t got no money
Ain’t got no class
Ain’t got no friends
Ain’t got no schoolin’
Ain’t got no work
Ain’t got no job
Ain’t got no money
No place to stay
Ain’t got no father
Ain’t got no mother
Ain’t got no children
Ain’t got no sisters or brothers
Ain’t got no earth
Ain’t got no faith
Ain’t got no church
Ain’t got no god
Ain’t got no love
Ain’t got no wine
No cigarrettes
No clothes
No country
No class
No schoolin’
No friends
No nothing
Ain’t got no god
Ain’t got (one more)
Ain’t got no earth
No water
No food
No home
I said I ain’t got no clothes
No job
No nothing
Ain’t got long to live
And I ain’t got no love
Oooooh.. But what have I got?
Aaaaah.. What have I got?
Let me tell you what I’ve got
That nobody is gonna take away
Unless I wanna
I got my hair on my head
My brains
My ears
My eyes
My nose
And my mouth
I've got my smile
I got my tongue
My chin
My neck
My boobbies
My heart
My soul
And my back
I've got my sex
I've got my arms
My hands
My fingers
My legs
My feet
My toes
And my liver
I've got my blood
I've got life
I've got loughs
I've got headaches and toothaches
And bad times too, like you
I've got my hair
My head
My brains
My ears
My eyes
My nose
And my mouth
I've got my smile
And it's my smile
I got my tongue
My chin
My neck and my boobbies
My heart
My soul
And my back
I've got my sex, yeah !
I got my arms
My hands
My fingers
My legs
My feet
My toes
I've got my liver
I've got my blood
I've got life
I’ve got my freedom
And my heart
I've got life
- Artist:Nina Simone