3:57 / 4:12

1999

• It's Pumpkin Time
• East Coast Super Sound Punk Of Today!
• Addicted To Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's Twentieth Century

Pirate Jenny she got her revenge
Hey boys hats off to her
Sally Bowles she got her man
And he got really hurt
Me and my friends had some good ideas
But I swear that town got so damn weird
I got out alive in '35
I don't think I'll ever go back
But I remember….

Pirate Jenny let me off the hook
For one drink I bought for her
And Sally Bowles used to
Look at me and sigh
“If you weren't so poor…“
It ain't no thing about the promise ring
And socialists are so boring
Just a bunch of bullies
That I can't stand
They got elected into office by…well, you

Pirate Jenny she bought the bar
Now everybody works for her
And Sally Bowles “Mein Herr” bit took off
And she's a star
But the Bully Boys start sitting up in the front
And the doorman's taking tips
And suggestions
I'm getting in fights
In the places I used to play
It's like walking through a minefield every day

“I'm a fag, I'm a Jew, how do you do?
That's Mister Anarchist to you
You think your scene's dead?
Well mine got killed
By some dimwit's Triumph of the Will
From the all-ages shows
To the full wet bars
To the front line squats of the culture wars
I'm not gonna hit you with the dogma
Or the lecturing
This is a purely personal thing.”

You see, Pirate Jenny
Didn't have no friends when those bulls
They came for her
And Sally Bowles' man
He got pushed up against the wall
Now every time I see a Swiss bank I spit
You say “resist control”?
Well, I mean it
Cause it was come as you are
In the cattle cars
And not a damn thing you can do about it
'Cept remember!

• Pirate Jenny is the name of a song from “The Threepenny Opera.” The song is told from the perspective of a barmaid/innkeeper named Jenny, who fantasizes about a pirate ship attacking her town and helping her exact violent retribution on all the patrons who treat her badly.
• Sally Bowles is a secondary character from Christopher Isherwood's “The Berlin Stories,” whose role was increased in subsequent adaptations. She is described as an aspiring actress working in a seedy nightclub who dreams of becoming famous or seducing a wealthy man. “Mein Herr” is Sally's introductory song from “Cabaret,” the film version of the musical based on Isherwood's stories.
• “Triumph of the Will” is the title of an infamous Nazi propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl

• A new version of the song was recorded for the “Addicted to Bad Ideas” album