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Recorded at Cowboy Technical Services, Brooklyn, NY, April 2011 with Joe Flood (guitar and vocal), Skip Ward (double bass), and Phil Cimino (drums). Produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel.

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Oh, Jenny, yes, Jenny
There’s a room at her inn if you’ve no hearth or home
The last place of its kind you will find as you roam
Until you reach the good Lord’s inn at last
And enter there without a knock
Through a door with no lock
Knowing trouble’s past

That’s Jenny’s, yes, Jenny’s
You’re nobody at all come from no matter where
And miraculously you can pull up a chair
To find you’re just one of the family
And if you push in just a bit
In her heart you can fit
Snug as you can be

And Jenny, that Jenny
She is poor and her table’s not so well supplied
But the little that’s there will keep you satisfied
Just by her giving it so willingly
Her water is turned into wine
Bread becomes cake as fine
As cake ought to be

And Jenny, poor Jenny
You pay her what you can the price always is right
A quick kiss on her brow or on her hair so white
Play something like a guitar chord or two
And for a tip just lead her to
Some poor dog or cat who
Is as lost as you

And Jenny, poor Jenny
Never found in her garden a baby to hold
And to love and defend when the four winds blow cold
And nurse with her own milk at her own breast
How sad and empty she could be
With no child on her knee
Just like all the rest

But Jenny, yes Jenny
Doesn’t cry anymore over what might have been
Why should she care to be just one more mother hen
When she is mother to the universe
And ev’ry child who’s born to cry
In the earth, sea, or sky
Is already hers

credits

from Joe Flood Translates and Sings Georges Brassens, released March 8, 2014

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Joe Flood New Haven, Connecticut

Joe Flood is a songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist who has performed, written, and recorded with many of the great names in American roots music, among them The Band, Blues Traveler, Dr. John, Bottle Rockets, Laura Cantrell, Eric Andersen, Happy and Artie Traum, Jim Weider, Eric "Roscoe" Ambel, Jono Manson, and the list goes on! Please visit www.joefloodmusic.com for more information. ... more

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