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  • (1963) Nina Simone
  • The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddam
  • And I mean every word of it
  • Alabama's gotten me so upset
  • Tennessee made me lose my rest
  • And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
  • Alabama's gotten me so upset
  • Tennessee made me lose my rest
  • And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
  • Can't you see it
  • Can't you feel it
  • It's all in the air
  • I can't stand the pressure much longer
  • Somebody say a prayer
  • Alabama's gotten me so upset
  • Tennessee made me lose my rest
  • And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
  • This is a show tune
  • But the show hasn't been written for it, yet
  • Hound dogs on my trail
  • School children sitting in jail
  • Black cat cross my path
  • I think every day's gonna be my last
  • Lord have mercy on this land of mine
  • We all gonna get it in due time
  • I don't belong here
  • I don't belong there
  • I've even stopped believing in prayer
  • Don't tell me
  • I tell you
  • Me and my people just about due
  • I've been there so I know
  • They keep on saying "Go slow!"
  • But that's just the trouble
  • "do it slow"
  • Washing the windows
  • "do it slow"
  • Picking the cotton
  • "do it slow"
  • You're just plain rotten
  • "do it slow"
  • You're too damn lazy
  • "do it slow"
  • The thinking's crazy
  • "do it slow"
  • Where am I going
  • What am I doing
  • I don't know
  • I don't know
  • Just try to do your very best
  • Stand up be counted with all the rest
  • For everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
  • I made you thought I was kiddin' didn't we
  • Picket lines
  • School boycotts
  • They try to say it's a communist plot
  • All I want is equality
  • for my sister my brother my people and me
  • Yes you lied to me all these years
  • You told me to wash and clean my ears
  • And talk real fine just like a lady
  • And you'd stop calling me Sister Sadie
  • Oh but this whole country is full of lies
  • You're all gonna die and die like flies
  • I don't trust you any more
  • You keep on saying "Go slow!"
  • "Go slow!"
  • But that's just the trouble
  • "do it slow"
  • Desegregation
  • "do it slow"
  • Mass participation
  • "do it slow"
  • Reunification
  • "do it slow"
  • Do things gradually
  • "do it slow"
  • But bring more tragedy
  • "do it slow"
  • Why don't you see it
  • Why don't you feel it
  • I don't know
  • I don't know
  • You don't have to live next to me
  • Just give me my equality
  • Everybody knows about Mississippi
  • Everybody knows about Alabama
  • Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
  • That's it!

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