| The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddam
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| And I mean every word of it
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| Alabama’s gotten me so upset
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| Tennessee made me lose my rest
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| And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
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| Can’t you see it
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| Can’t you feel it
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| It’s all in the air
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| I can’t stand the pressure much longer
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| Somebody say a prayer
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| Alabama’s gotten me so upset
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| Tennessee made me lose my rest
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| And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
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| (This is a show tune, but the show hasn’t been written for it, yet)
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| Hound dogs on my trail
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| School children sitting in jail
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| Black cat cross my path
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| I think every day’s gonna be my last
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| Lord have mercy on this land of mine
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| We all gonna get it in due time
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| I don’t belong here
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| I don’t belong there
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| I’ve even stopped believing in prayer
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| Don’t tell me, I’ll tell you
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| Me and my people just about due
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| I’ve been there so I know
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| They keep on saying «Go slow!»
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| But that’s just the trouble
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| «do it slow»
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| Washing the windows
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| «do it slow»
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| Picking the cotton
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| «do it slow»
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| You’re just plain rotten
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| «do it slow»
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| You’re too damn lazy
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| «do it slow»
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| The thinking’s crazy
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| «do it slow»
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| Where am I going
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| What am I doing
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| I don’t know
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| I don’t know
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| Just try to do your very best
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| Stand up, be counted with all the rest
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| For everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
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| (I bet you thought I was kidding, didn’t you)
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| Picket lines, school boycotts
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| They try to say it’s a communist plot
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| All I want is equality
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| For my sister, my brother, my people, and me
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| Yes, you lied to me all these years
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| You told me to wash and clean my ears
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| And talk real fine just like a lady
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| And you’d stop calling me Sister Sadie
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| Oh but this whole country is full of lies
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| You’re all gonna die and die like flies
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| I don’t trust you any more
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| You keep on saying «Go slow!»
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| «Go slow!»
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| But that’s just the trouble
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| «do it slow»
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| Desegregation
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| «do it slow»
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| Mass participation
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| «do it slow»
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| Reunification
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| «do it slow»
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| Do things gradually
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| «do it slow»
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| But bring more tragedy
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| «do it slow»
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| Why don’t you see it
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| Why don’t you feel it
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| I don’t know
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| I don’t know
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| You don’t have to live next to me
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| Just give me my equality
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| Everybody knows about Mississippi
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| Everybody knows about Alabama
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| Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
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| That’s it! |
Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Mississippi Goodman , by - Nina Simone. Song from the album Nina Simone Sus 25 Mejores Canciones, in the genre