Last night I Em7 saw Lester G(add Maddox A)/B on a Em7 TV show
with some Em7 smart-ass G(add New A)/B York Em7 Jew.
And the Em7 Jew laughed at G(add Lester A)/B Maddox A7/C#
and the C/D audience laughed at Gsus4/D Lester Maddox G too.
Well, he Em7 may be a G(add fool, A)/B but he's Em7 our fool.
If they Em7 think they're better than G(add him, t A)/B hey're A7/C# wrong.
So I Em7 went to the Em7/D park and I took some C paper along A7/C#
and C/D that's where I Gsus4/D made this son G g.
Verse 1:
G We talk real D7 funny down G here. D7
G We drink too D7 much and we G laugh too D7 loud.
We're G too dumb to D/F# make it in no Em7 Northern town,
and we're A7 keepin' the C/D niggers G down. D7
We got G no-necked D7 oilmen from G Texas, D7
G good ol' D7 boys from Tennes G see, D7
G college D/F# men from Em7 L.S.U.
G Went in D/F# dumb, come Em7 out dumb too.
G Hustlin' 'round At D/F# lanta in their Em7 alligator shoes.
Gettin' G drunk ev'ry D/F# weekend at the Em7 barbuques,
and they're A7 keepin' the C/D niggers G down.
CHORUS:
We're G Red C necks, we're G Red C necks,
and we G don't know our D7 ass from a Em7 hole in the C7 ground.
We're G Red D7 necks, we're G Red D7 necks,
and we're are A7 keeping the C/D niggers G down.
(last time only--slowly)
E7 We are A7 keepin' the C/D niggers G down.
Verse 2:
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 on 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)
Randy Newman
