A better take on the Hair tune than the original, as one might expect from Nina Simone.
The way she delivers this song is very Harlem 1969. The original reads off the "ain't got no" list with defiance, the implication being that he chose to live without as a protest against some system or other.
Nina Simone delivers the same lines less enthusiastically, more quiet determination than melodrama. The feeling is more "ain't never had no" rather than "ain't got no" and you could tack on a "and we demand justice" for good measure at the end.
Nina Simone
"Ain't Got No"
Live in Harlem, 1969
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