"Ain't Got No - I Got Life" Written by Nina Simone. Lyrics are in reference to the slavery and oppression of black people. Performed by: Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity.
"Ain't Got No/I Got Life" is a 2:17 single by the American songwriter Nina Simone. The song also featured on Nuff Said (1968). It is a medley of two songs from the musical Hair, with lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. The song helped Simone gain pop-popularity under a new, younger audience, and became a standard in her repertoire. It has been suggested that the lyrics are in reference to the slavery and oppression of black people.
this song is McDermott's & Ragni's from Hair, not Nina Simone's. Unless she added her own lyrics to original.possible.song is not hers.
playboatify 10 months ago
This song wasn't written by Nina, she covered it from the musical Hair.
69starchild 1 year ago
Point of Fact: This medley from "Hair" was actually written by that show's creators: James Rado, Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot, though Nina Simone did indeed have success with it in the late '60s.
nosleep62 1 year ago 2
What a great adaptation of Simone's classic...!
BillyGR13 2 years ago