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Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show |
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With some smart-ass New York Jew |
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And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox |
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And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too |
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Well, he may be a fool but he's our fool |
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If they think they're better than him they're wrong |
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So I went to the park and I took some paper along |
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And that's where I made this song |
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We talk real funny down here |
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We drink too much and we laugh too loud |
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We're too dumb to make it in no Northern town |
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And we're keepin' the niggers down |
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We got no-necked oilmen from Texas |
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And good ol' boys from Tennessee |
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And college men from LSU |
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Went in dumb - come out dumb too |
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Hustlin' 'round Atlanta in their alligator shoes |
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Gettin' drunk every weekend at the barbecues |
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And they're keepin' the niggers down |
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We're rednecks, rednecks |
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And we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground |
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We're rednecks, we're rednecks |
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And we're keeping the niggers down |
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Now your northern nigger's a Negro |
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You see he's got his dignity |
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Down here we're too ignorant to realize |
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That the North has set the nigger free |
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Yes he's free to be put in a cage |
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In Harlem in New York City |
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And he's free to be put in a cage in the South-Side of Chicago |
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And the West-Side |
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And he's free to be put in a cage in Hough in Cleveland |
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And he's free to be put in a cage in East St. Louis |
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And he's free to be put in a cage in Fillmore in San Francisco |
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And he's free to be put in a cage in Roxbury in Boston |
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They're gatherin' 'em up from miles around |
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Keepin' the niggers down |
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We're rednecks, we're rednecks |
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We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground |
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We're rednecks, we're rednecks |
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And we're keeping the niggers down |
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We are keeping the niggers down |
