Nina Simone — Be My Husband Live At Montreux

Be my husband, and I'll be your wife Be my husband, and I'll be your wife, oh Be my husband, and I'll be your wife And I'll love you for the rest of your life If you promise me you'll be my man If you promise me you'll be my man If you promise me you'll be my man I'm gonna love you the best I can Any time now Stick to the promise that you made me Stick to the promise that you-- remember this one? Yeah? [Spoken Improvisation] You know, I made 35 albums, they bootlegged 70... Oh, evеryone took a chunk of me! And yestеrday, I went to see Janis Joplin's film, yeah. And what distressed me the most, and I try- I started to write a song about it, but I decided you weren't worthy. Because I figured that most of you here are for the festival and you just really... Anyway, the point is, it- it pained me, see, how hard she worked. Because she got hooked into her thing and it wasn't drugs. She got hooked into a feeling, and she played to corpses! (*Tut tut tut tut tut tut tut tut*) You know what I mean? He he he he he! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha! But true! If you promise me you'll be my man If you promise me you'll be my man If you promise me you'll be my man, I'm gonna love you the best I can Stick to the promise that you made me Stick to the promise that you made me Stick to the promise that you made me That you'll stay away from Rosalie Oh, baby, ah, baby, oh, baby, oh, baby, oh, baby, oh, baby, ah, baby, ah baby And moja Ah moja Oh-oh moja Oh-ho moja Well you, baby, ah- don't need me Ah, baby, oh, baby, I said, "Stick to the promise that you made me," now Stick to the promise that you made me, now Stick to the promise that you made me, that you'd stay you'd stay away from Rosalie Oh, daddy, oh, baby, oh, daddy, oh baby, oh, daddy, oh, baby Sha...