# Do you know any bad Jennys?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-bad-jennys/54922>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 17, 2001, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-bad-jennys/54922 "2001-02-17T23:16:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-bad-jennys/54922/61 "2001-02-26T05:07:10Z")

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I just remembered Pirate Jenny from “The Three-penny Opera”:

> [@](#):
>
> By noontime the dock  
> is a-swarmin’ with men  
> comin’ out from the ghostly freighter  
> They move in the shadows  
> where no one can see  
> And they’re chainin’ up people  
> and they’re bringin’ em to me  
> askin’ me,  
> “Kill them NOW, or LATER?”  
> Askin’ ME!  
> “Kill them now, or later?”
> 
> Noon by the clock  
> and so still by the dock  
> You can hear a foghorn miles away  
> And in that quiet of death  
> I’ll say, “Right now.  
> Right now!”
> 
> Then they’ll pile up the bodies  
> And I’ll say,  
> “That’ll learn ya!”

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