At the end she received a standing ovation. Halfway through the song Simone forgot the lyrics and invented some.
" Go Limp" was a humorous folk song about a girl who is warned by her mother not to join the NAACP because it would cost her her virginity.
"Old Jim Crow" was a protest song against Jim Crow laws.
Simone rarely performed the song, though the theatrical piece became one of her signature tunes. Simone used the story within the song as a metaphor for the civil rights movement at that time.
" Pirate Jenny" was from The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht.
Simone recorded " I Loves You, Porgy", "Plain Gold Ring", and " Don't Smoke in Bed" on her debut album Little Girl Blue (1958).
The album was rated as the 94th best album of the 1960s by Pitchfork. However, songs such as "Old Jim Crow", "Go Limp", and "Pirate Jenny" contributed to the political and civil rights messaging in a more covert or metaphorical way. Included on the album are unambiguous political songs such as "Mississippi Goddamn", released as a single at the time. This album marked the beginning of Simone's explicitly Civil Rights oriented music and she incorporated civil rights messaging into her performances. Simone recorded Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall in 1963 for Colpix. It is her first album for the record label Philips, composed of three live recordings made at Carnegie Hall, New York City, in March and April 1964. Nina Simone in Concert is an album by the jazz singer Nina Simone.