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Willi On August 21, 2018




northinmind,
#1New Post! Sep 26, 2017 @ 00:05:32
Is there truth in this song?

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Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show
With some smart a** 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
And we're keepin' the n*****s down

We got no necked oilmen from Texas
And good ol' boys from Tennessee
And colleges men from LSU
Went in dumb, come out dumb too
Hustlin' 'round Atlanta in their alligator shoes
Gettin' drunk every weekend at the barbecues
And they're keepin' the n*****s down

We are rednecks, we're rednecks
We don't know our a**
From a hole in the ground
We're rednecks, we're rednecks
And we're keeping the n*****s down

Now your northern n*****'s a negro
You see he's got his dignity
Down here we're too ignorant to realize
That the North has set the n***** 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 n*****s down

We're rednecks, we're rednecks
We don't know our a**
From a hole in the ground
We're rednecks, we're rednecks
We're keeping the n*****s down
We are keeping the n*****s down

Songwriters: RANDY NEWMAN

© Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

For non-commercial use only.

Data from: LyricFind
Willi On August 21, 2018




northinmind,
#2New Post! Sep 26, 2017 @ 00:07:03
Randy Newman - Rednecks
mrmhead On about 24 hours ago




NE, Ohio
#3New Post! Sep 26, 2017 @ 20:06:22
Randy Newman also wrote a song that short people got no reason to live ....

Maybe "Rednecks" is in context of a movie or something??
Willi On August 21, 2018




northinmind,
#4New Post! Sep 27, 2017 @ 02:38:49
@mrmhead Said

Randy Newman also wrote a song that short people got no reason to live ....

Maybe "Rednecks" is in context of a movie or something??



sounds like he says why he wrote it in the song.
He saw Lester get laughed at.
He wanted to remind the north we ain't no better even though we think we are?

from wikki
""Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Randy Lewis said Newman had "peeled back the curtain on... bigots and hypocrites" with this song.[4] In 1995, Newman admitted that he was still nervous performing the song""
""Newman said that having written "Rednecks" he felt he had to explain where he was coming from, which led him to write "Marie" and "Birmingham", two other songs that ended up on his Good Old Boys album.[2]""
Willi On August 21, 2018




northinmind,
#5New Post! Sep 27, 2017 @ 03:21:25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlGSmHhkaUc
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