Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Rednecks, artist - Randy Newman. Album song The Randy Newman Songbook, in the genre Иностранная авторская песняDate of issue: 15.12.2016
Record label: Nonesuch
Song language: English
Rednecks |
| 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 |
| We’re keepin' the niggers down |
| We got no-necked oilmen from Texas |
| Good ol' boys from Tennessee |
| College men from LSU |
| Went in dumb, come out dumb too |
| Hustlin' 'round Atlanta in their alligator shoes |
| Gettin' drunk every weekend at the barbecues |
| They’re keepin' the niggers down |
| We’re rednecks, rednecks |
| We don’t know our ass from a hole in the ground |
| We’re rednecks, we’re rednecks |
| We’re keeping the niggers down |
| Now, your northern nigga’s a Negro |
| You see, he’s got his dignity |
| Down here, we too ignorant to realize |
| That the North has set the nigga 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 |