Simone, Nina - Four Women Lyrics

Composed beautifully, speechless 🎷🎺🎙️🎹

💯💯I Love My Black Sisters 4eva💪🏾🤙🏾🙌🏽🙌🏽

Superbe

Peaches Nisker 🍑

Some of u whites need to fuck off. U always think you can relate to us africans. You haven’t been through anything that even enflicts pain on you. Don’t ever compare us to you, As we never compare ourselves to you.

Nina wrote this song for BLACK AMERICAN women who are descendants of enslaved Africans. This song was not written for all black women in mind. This song was specifically written for the Black American woman's experience. I normally don't credit Wikipedia but even Wikipedia will tell you this.

Phenomenal talent who touches my heart and soul!

...a fusion of underground hiphop with an eerie blues. At this time you don't listen with ur ears, u listen with ur mind and soul. Simple, poetic and deep.

Powerful and chilling to the soul, truthful and vocally gifted legend of our time....2019 and beyond.

Who is listening 22 December 2919. It's my first time listening to this track 🔥🔥🔥

wish there were strong women like this nowadays 2019

This is my song i love her

Woolley

It's quite interesting to see how people who aren't African American/Black African claim that this song relates to "every woman" when actually during her life Nina Simone went up against many obstacles due to being a dark skinned African American woman to tell the truth about her life and experiences through music, she had to fight to be rightfully paid, she was even denied an opportunity to study music at university because of her dark skin, even though evidently she was a musical genius and she wasn't appreciated by the "mainstream" until AFTER her death, now people want to claim that she wrote for everything and everybody. Of course music is universal but Nina wrote, played and sang about HER experiences from her perspective being a dark skinned African American woman living in America during that time. Stop trying to rewrite and repurpose her music because you need to somehow feel included and you can't deal with the fact that she experienced racism and a specific type of racism because of her dark skin. This need to be in denial and rewrite things so you feel comfortable listening to a song that is actually talking about something very serious and specific to African American women is just getting ridiculous now, instead of trying to make it about you, try to listen to someone else's experiences for once.

Exactly. People don't understand that they don't have to try and relate to everything.

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0:54

For colored girls bought me here. I luv that movie....

Powerful song...

Beautiful song.

Ok Boomer

Damn y'all know how to take something and ruin it. Now the "ok boomer" reaponse is phucking lame.

🔥 FLAMES.....

The meaning of this song have to many levels ,respect for this singe love it .

I have to do a dance for this I’m the second woman

They call me Sugar! 🔥🔥✊🏾

The first time I heard this song, earlier this year, that last verse completely had me shook. I had to pull over. Goosebumps all over my body. Such a powerful last verse.

53 ppl that disliked are all fuckwits

The love I have for my Sisters 😢🙏❤️

wait and listen for my songs...depth and substance and conscience i was always told as a child i look like nina simone and act like her...especially my lips and sassyness...ps my sing isnt the best of me but my deliverance and writing skills are..... debut song #metoo taking it higher and hitting it lower where it reaches your SOUL much love queenvip

Timeless and a masterpiece.Talib Kweli song Four Women is epic too.Jay Z life of OJ is inspiring too.

Lyrics:
My skin is black
My arms are long
My hair is woolly
My back is strong
Strong enough to take the pain
inflicted again and again
What do they call me
My name is AUNT SARAH
My name is Aunt Sarah

My skin is yellow
My hair is long
Between two worlds
I do belong
My father was rich and white
He forced my mother late one night
What do they call me
My name is SAFFRONIA
My name is Saffronia

My skin is tan
My hair is fine
My hips invite you
my mouth like wine
Whose little girl am I?
Anyone who has money to buy
What do they call me
My name is SWEET THING
My name is Sweet Thing

My skin is brown
my manner is tough
I'll kill the first mother I see
my life has been too rough
I'm awfully bitter these days
because my parents were slaves
What do they call me
My name is PEACHES

Thank you!!!

1966 to 2019

Damn Nina was right on time and ahead of her time at the same damn time. Love this woman.

Drug dealin' aside, ghostwritin' aside.
Let's have a heart-to- heart about your pride.

On the train crying, she was n still is soo ever powerful may her voice 4ever live.💞🌬

DRUG DEALING ASIDE, GHOSTWRITING ASIDE

Story telling

I love this woman so much! Beautiful in and out! 🖤👑🎵🎶

Iyanla brought me here💃🏿thankyou

No I.D's superb production on The Story of O.J. brought me here to this beautiful song.

What do they call me

still nigga

Not a bit of class, self-identification isn't a compelling reason for you to apply it to others.

"What's your favorite fruit?"
People: "oranges"... "Apples" "bananas"
Nina Simone: 4:12

🤤 GRAPE'S 🚶

Her voice is almost paralyzing

I like to think the following:

"Four Women" = Story of African American Women

"The Story of OJ" = Story of African American Men

The story of adonis the story of a black father figure who questions his skin colour and doesn’t properly care for his child

@J-Lock *of adidon

@J-Lock jus gotta do it ya know? 😂😂😂

African woman too

@River Girl No, African AMERICAN women who are descendants of enslaved Africans. You will NOT co-opt this. We are NOT the same and that is ok.

Wen i come back again i wanna be a black woman. The mother civilization , the blueprint, and frum all beauty standards are compared to....

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*this song makes me emotional😯*

Who is here from Genius?

I literally have never gotten goosebumps listening to anything else

This song always brings me to tears.😭

My new favorite song 🍑

This is written for All Black Women - also at sometime or another - All We Women are All of these Four Women ! thank you Nina.

Im not black im OJ

😭😭😭 like we will never ever get another artist / song writer / Genius/ GODDESS like this ever again 😭😭😭💔💔💔💔

My name is Peaches 😆😆 and every Peaches I've ever known, been a mothafucka.

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👟 *laughing my f-ing head off!😄*

1966---my birth--my story--living the lyrics....somewhere in oklahoma

my hair is woolly...my back is strong...strong enough to take the pain...inflicted again...and again!

Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
Still nigga, still nigga
I like that second one
Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
Still nigga, still nigga

Watched For Colored Girls...this song was the ending.

Who else came here as a result of Story of OJ?

Magnifique !

Very nice!😁😎

Beautiful just beautiful 💯

I won't lie, I had no idea who Nina Simone was until I heard that Behr paint commercial where they completely misused her song "Color is a Beautiful Thing" and I wanted to find out who was singing. I've since fell in love with her work. She had such a powerful, commanding voice that was perfect for the powerful messages she was trying to send.

A few lyrics from this song were stuck in my head for years and at first I was happy I found it, but this song is so thoroughly real and depressing I think I could have gone without it.

Nina had me open since the first day I heard her 1987..Thanks Brother Black!😎😎😎😎😎

Our historical culture in song...

Nina Simone is one of the most incredible people who has ever lived. (Edit: I realize that perhaps I should have said "was" but truthfully, I feel like she is eternal.)

Katy Groves....absolutely

It feels so good to be black, powerful songs like these resonates throughout my soul...the struggle my people have been through is unfathomable to anyone outside of our race...but when I look around today and see how brainwashed my brothers and sisters have become....it hurts...it really does....that just lets me know that the "devil" has got our people right where he wants us.....but when enough is enough, all hell is going to break loose!!!

Drug dealing aside, ghost writing aside

The last woman’s name is Peaches. All along I thought she gave some African name “Pitiching” or something.

who is still listening it in 2019? we are living horible moment in our country because of our president Paul Biya. such a deep soul song lemme see that the afro evil is older than we tought

They play her music in a lot of movies and commercials

Americans got Donald Trump I'm starting to believe the entire world is on fire

22 December 2019 listening

Can we ever have such quality????

She's a world apart from others. Unique. Talented and oh so magnetic.

This isn’t even music. She’s just talking

What is music?


1. Vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotional or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.


This, Sir Bruh my booty hurts Lol, is music...and a good one at that.

Eric Maigwa look I know the importance of this “song”, but it’s ass if we’re talking about music

And that's the beauty of music... subjectivity

She's singing and there are instruments being played
This couldn't be more a of a song if it tried

It's song dumbass stop trying to be smart

There's something eerie and unsettling about the sound of this tune, even in Jay-Z's sampling of it

Like, her song Mississippi Goddam is structured like a show tune, but there's just something about it that is off, making it perfect for the subject matter

@Gregory Wiederecht This is the blues, but in jazz form.

Na there’s nothing unsettling about it

Chalk Balloon No

Agree composed very carefully but beautifully

vogliamo dire che questa musica e"pallosa? si diciamolo.la verita"rende liberi'magari antipatici e criticati ma liberi

Sei tu música también, si tú la sientes, sei tu música.

What a performance, it gives me chills every time! That voice, legendary Nina!

The story of OJ

Prodigy - Stronger

Got to listen again but she was a powerhouse.her songs touched on black issues then and now.i give credit to new artist leah jenae for her new spin on nina song gold ring.

Which one of these four women are you?

Peaches and Aunt Sara.

i feel like crying

Bruh the ending with peaches brought me to tears . 😭

I showed this my grandma and she said she used to smoke weed with nina biggie smalls and tupac

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Light Nigga, Dark Nigga.........

I am mesmerized

May God bless this extraordinary GENIUS clearly indicating the human suffering of some women and the overcoming of some others.

Listen to the talib kweli version of this song. I’m not black but I still feel this and that song hard. Brings tears to my eyes. Cant imagine how it would hit me if I was a black woman.

Prodigy got a good version too called "Stronger"

My only wish is that I could have seen her live...I would have been fulfilled 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

I saw her in the mid 60s and she was amazing

She came to a High School in my city when I was in High School 1970- it was almost a private concert- we only knew about it through the High Schools- the gymnasium was set up with folding chairs - I sat right in front by her piano, in folding chairs they set up - It was most unforgettable experience and so moving I cried -so intimate, She was just amazing. I'm so grateful I had that privilege. I went to Malcolm Shabazz High but the concert was at West High School Madison, WI - Anybody out there- that was there!??

STORY OF OJ Jay-Z brought me here!

Try looking for Talib Kweli - 4 women. He kept it original

I showed this to my grandma















She burnt to death bc this is fire

How did you make this one? What inspired you

White folks act like blacs are sooo dangerous /evil but den wat do u call slavery n segregation

Grand Wiz you talk so much bullshit

That's exactly what Grand Wiz is referencing- "so much BS" of slavery and segregation that were perpetrated by quintessential BSers.