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"Ain't Got No, I Got Life" is a 1968 single by American singer-songwriter Nina Simone, from her album 'Nuff Said. It is a medley of two songs, "Ain't Got No" and "I Got Life", from the musical Hair, with lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. The combination of the two songs was rewritten by Simone to suit her purpose.
"Sinner Man" or "Sinnerman" is an song written by Les Baxter and Will Holt, in the style of a African American traditional spiritual song. It has been recorded by a number of performers and has been incorporated in many other media and arts. The lyrics describe a sinner attempting to hide from divine justice on Judgment Day.
It was performed here for the first time. The song was heavily cut from the longer original recording, which featured a lot of Simone's monologue. "Ain't Got No, I Got Life", a medley from the musical Hair (Rado, Ragni, MacDermot). It became a hit in Europe, reaching number two on the British charts and number one on the Dutch charts. [1]
The Very Best of Nina Simone is a compilation album of songs by Nina ... "Sinnerman" – 10:21 ... "Ain't Got No, I Got Life" (Nina Simone V Groovefinder remix) – 3 ...
With lyrics such as "You're just plain rotten" and "You're too damn lazy", Simone mocks her racist oppressors by mimicking their language. [ 6 ] Miami University musicology professor Tammy Kernodle explains: "In Mississippi Goddam, we have Nina Simone pulling from the past and invoking it in the present, but also speaking to what is yet to come ...
One at a time, the women interrupt Nina Simone (Alexis J. Roston) as she tries to write words to a new song: Meek, faith-filled Aunt Sarah (Gabrielle Lott-Rogers), wearing a maid's uniform.
She is the subject of Nina: A Story About Me and Nina Simone, a one-woman show first performed in 2016 at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool—a "deeply personal and often searing show inspired by the singer and activist Nina Simone" [124] —and which in July 2017 ran at the Young Vic, before being scheduled to move to Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre.
In a review for AllMusic, Richard Mortifoglio commented on the 1970 album Live at Berkeley: " ... the Berkeley campus in the early '70s was such a hotbed of anti-Vietnam sentiment and the songs performed here, including "Ain't Got No/I Got Life" from HAIR, "Four Women," and the soon-to-be classic "To Be Young, Gifted & Black," partake of the political ferment that was in the air.