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Intro
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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.
Verse 1:
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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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good ol' boys from Tennessee,
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college men from L.S.U.
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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 ev'ry weekend at the barbuques,
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and they're keepin' the niggers down.
CHORUS
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We're Rednecks, we're 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 are keeping the niggers down.
(last time only--slowly)
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We are keepin' the niggers 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)
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