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Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show
With some smart-ass New York Jew And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too Well, he may be a fool but he's our fool If they think they're better than him they're wrong So I went to the park and I took some paper along And that's where I made this song We talk real funny down here We drink too much and we laugh too loud We're too dumb to make it in no Northern town And we're keepin' the niggers down We got no-necked oilmen from Texas And good ol' boys from Tennessee And colleges men from LSU Went in dumb - come out dumb too Hustlin' 'round Atlanta in their alligator shoes Gettin' drunk every weekend at the barbecues And they're keepin' the niggers down CHORUS We're rednecks, rednecks And we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground We're rednecks, we're rednecks And we're keeping the niggers down Now your northern nigger's a Negro You see he's got his dignity Down here we're too ignorant to realize That the North has set the nigger free Yes he's free to be put in a cage In Harlem in New York City And he's free to be put in a cage in the South-Side of Chicago And the West-Side And he's free to be put in a cage in Hough in Cleveland And he's free to be put in a cage in East St. Louis And he's free to be put in a cage in Fillmore in San Francisco And he's free to be put in a cage in Roxbury in Boston They're gatherin' 'em up from miles around Keepin' the niggers down CHORUS |
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| 2:46 |
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Got a wife, got a family
Earn my livin' with my hand I'm a roller in a steel mill In downtown Birmingham My daddy was a barber And a most unsightly man He was born in Tuscaloosa But he died right here in Birmingham CHORUS Birmingham, Birmingham The greatest city in Alabam' You can travel 'cross this entire land But there's no place like Birmingham Wife's named Mary But she's called Marie We live in a three room house With a pepper tree I work all day in the factory That's alright with me Got a big black dog Whose name is Dan Lives in my backyard in Birmingham He is the meanest dog in Alabam' Get 'em Dan CHORUS |
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| 3:08 |
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You looked like a princess the night we met
With your hair piled up high I will never forget I'm drunk right now baby But I've got to be Or I never could tell you What you meant to me CHORUS I loved you the first time I saw you And I always will love you Marie I loved you the first time I saw you And I always will love you Marie You're the song that the trees sing when the wind blows You're a flower, you're a river, you're a rainbow Sometimes I'm crazy But I guess you know And I'm weak and I'm lazy And I've hurt you so And I don't listen to a word you say When you're in trouble I just turn away CHORUS |
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| 2:46 |
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We've taken all you've given
But it's gettin' hard to make a livin' Mr. President have pity on the working man We're not asking you to love us You may place yourself high above us Mr. President have pity on the working man I know it may sound funny But people ev'ry where are runnin' out of money We just can't make it by ourself It is cold and the wind is blowing We need something to keep us gong Mr. President have pity on the working man Maybe you've cheated Maybe you've lied Maybe you have lost your mind Maybe you're only thinking 'bout yourself Too late to run. Too late to cry now The time has come for us to say good-bye now Mr. President have pity on the working man Mr. President have pity on the working man |
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| 2:56 |
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What has happened down here is the wind have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain Rained real hard and rained for a real long time Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline The river rose all day The river rose all night Some people got lost in the flood Some people got away alright The river have busted through cleard down to Plaquemines Six feet of water in the streets of Evangelne CHORUS Louisiana, Louisiana They're tyrin' to wash us away They're tryin' to wash us away Louisiana, Louisiana They're tryin' to wash us away They're tryin' to wash us away President Coolidge came down in a railroad train With a little fat man with a note-pad in his hand The President say, "Little fat man isn't it a shame what the river has done To this poor crackers land." CHORUS |
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| 1:03 |
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Why weep or slumber America
Land of brave and true With castles and clothing and food for all All belongs to you Ev'ry man a king, ev'ry man a king For you can be a millionaire But there's something belonging to others There's enough for all people to share When it's sunny June and December too Or in the winter time or spring There'll be peace without end Ev'ry neighbor a friend With ev'ry man a king |
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| 2:45 |
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There's a hundred-thousand Frenchmen in New Orleans
In New Orleans there are Frenchmen everywhere But your house could fall down Your baby could drown Wouldn't none of those Frenchmen care Everybody gather 'round Loosen up your suspenders Hunker down on the ground I'm a cracker And you are too But don't I take good care of you Who built the highway to Baton Rouge? Who put up the hospital and built you schools? Who looks after shit-kickers like you? The Kingfish do Who gave a party at the Roosevelt Hotel? And invited the whole north half of the state down there for free The people in the city Had their eyes bugging out Cause everyone of you Looked just like me Kingfish, Kingfish Everybody sing Kingfish, Kingfish Every man a king Who took on the Standard Oil men And whipped their ass Just like he promised he'd do? Ain't no Standard Oil men gonna run this state Gonna be run by little folks like me and you Kingfish, Kingfish Friend of the working man Kingfish, Kingfish The Kingfish gonna save this land |
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| 3:09 |
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Old lady lost in the city
In the middle of a cold, cold night It was fourteen below and the wind start to blow There wasn't a boy scout in sight Pull down the shades cause he's comin' Turn out the lights cause he's here Runnin' hard down the street Through the snow and the sleet On the coldest night of the year CHORUS Beware, beware, beware of the Naked Man Old lady head up toward Broad Street Shufflin' uptown against the wind She had started to cry-wiped a tear from her eye And looked back to see where she had been Old lady stand on the corner With a purse in her hand She does not know but in a minute or so She will be robbed by a naked man CHORUS Old lady lean against a lamppost Starin' down at the ground on which she stand She look up and scream For the lamplight's beam There stood the famous Naked Man He say, "They found out about my sister And kicked me out of the Navy, They would have strung me up if they could. I tried to explain that we were both of us lazy And were doing the best we could." He faked to the left and he faked to the right And he snatched the purse fromere hand "Someone stop me," he cried, As he faded from sight, "Won't nobody help a naked man?" "Won't nobody help a naked man?" CHORUS |
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| 3:09 |
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There she is sitting there
Out behind the smoke-house in her rocking chair She don't do nothin' She don't say nothin' She don't feel nothin' She don't know nothin' Maybe she's crazy, I don't know But maybe that's why I love her so Her papa was a midget Her mama was a whore Her grandad was a newsboy 'til he was eighty-four Man don't you think I know she hates me Man don't you think I know that she's no good If she knew how she'd be unfaithful to me I think she'd kill me if she could Maybe she's crazy I don't know But maybe that's why I love her so I'm not afraid of the greywolf Who stalks through our forest at dawn As long as I have her beside me I have the strength to carry on Today we will be married And all the freaks that she knows will be there And all the people from the village will be there To congratulate us I will carry her across the threshold I will make dim the light I will attempt to spend my love within her But though I try with all my might She will laugh at my mighty sword She will laugh at my mighty sword Why must everybody laugh at my mighty sword? Lord, hep me if you will Maybe we're both crazy, I don't know Maybe that's why I love her so |
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| 3:22 |
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Doctor, let me tell you something about myself
I'm a college man and I'm very wealthy I've got no time to trifle with trash like you Cause I must be 'bout my business My brother's a machinist in a textile mill And he makes more money than you ever will He just got married to a Polish girl With a space between her teeth My sister's a dancer up in Baltimore At a small cafe on Main But she ran off with a Negro from the Eastern Shore Dr., she didn't even know his name CHORUS Get me back on my feet again Back on my feet again Open the door and set me free Get me back on my feet again He took her down to Mobile in a railroad train He said, "Driver, take me to the Hotel Paree." He went into the washroom Washed his face and hands Dr., when he come out he was white as you and me He said, "Girl, I'm not a Negro I'm a millionaire As you can plainly see So many women love my money But you have proved that you love only me. "I'm going to teach you to play polo and how to water ski And you won't have to dance no more And I no longer must pretend to be A Negro from the Eastern Shore." Doctor, doctor, what you say How 'bout letting me out today? Ain't no reason for me to stay Everybody's so far away CHORUS |
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| 2:55 |
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I never drink in the afternoon
I never drink alone But I sure do like a drink or two When I get home Let me tell you what I do I sit here in this chair I pour myself some whiskey And watch my troubls vanish into the air CHORUS Rollin', rollin' Ain't gonna worry no more Rollin', rollin' Ain't gonna worry no more Used to worry about gamblin' Throwin' my money away Used to worry about wastin' time And layin' round the house all day But I'm all right now I'm all right now I never thought I'd make it But I always do somehow I'm all right CHORUS |
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| 2:52 |
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You looked like a princess the night we met
With your hair piled up high I will never forget I'm drunk right now baby But I've got to be Or I never could tell you What you meant to me CHORUS I loved you the first time I saw you And I always will love you Marie I loved you the first time I saw you And I always will love you Marie You're the song that the trees sing when the wind blows You're a flower, you're a river, you're a rainbow Sometimes I'm crazy But I guess you know And I'm weak and I'm lazy And I've hurt you so And I don't listen to a word you say When you're in trouble I just turn away CHORUS |
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