Arr?

On September 19, 2005

My pirate name is:

Mad Jenny Kidd

Every pirate is a little bit crazy. You, though, are more than just a little bit. Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. Arr!

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ernunnos

You’re a Kurt Weil song?

September 19, 2005

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- jenbooks
  
  I am?? I confess I had to look him up. Ah ha! From the Threepenny Opera!
  
  In 1954, Lotte Lenya won a Tony Award for her role as Jenny in a somewhat softened version of the Threepenny Opera by Marc Blitzstein that played on and off Broadway for many years. Blitzstein translated the work into English, and Lenya, who was married to Weill, had also played the role of the “Pirate Jenny” in the original German production. Her ballad fantasizing leaving her work as a barmaid to lead a pirate assault on the city is the second best known song in the work with its chorus, “And the ship with black sails, and with 50 cannons, will besiege the city”. (Und das Schiff mit acht Segeln und mit fünfzig Kanonen wird beschießen die Stadt.)
  
  September 20, 2005
  
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