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unusual facts about Pirate Jenny


Pirate Jenny

Many notable artists have covered this song independent of the stage show: Lotte Lenya, Steeleye Span, Ute Lemper, Charlotte Rae, Nina Simone, The Dresden Dolls, Judy Collins, Marianne Faithfull, Marc Almond and Bea Arthur.


Chronicles: Volume One

At the end of the book, Dylan describes with great passion the moment when he listened to the Brecht/Weill song "Pirate Jenny", and the moment when he first heard Robert Johnson’s recordings.

Marianne Oswald

She was one of the first to interpret The Threepenny Opera by Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill, with lyrics adapted into French by André Mauprey, for instance singing La complainte de Mackie (a song English speakers know as Mack the Knife) and Pirate Jenny.


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