alcibiades_mystery
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Sat Sep-03-05 08:28 AM
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Mississippi Goddamn (Nina Simone, 1963) |
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The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddamn And I mean every word of it
Alabama's gotten me so upset Tennessee made me lose my rest And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddamn
Alabama's gotten me so upset Tennessee made me lose my rest And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddamn
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 Goddamn
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 Goddamn
I bet you thought I was kiddin'
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 Goddamn
That's it!
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Sat Sep-03-05 02:44 PM
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I'm sure this one will be running through people's head over the next few weeks.
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Sat Sep-03-05 03:13 PM
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2. i should have played this on my show today |
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Sat Sep-03-05 03:14 PM
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3. I love that song. And I am a huge fan of hers. |
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I saw her at the Montreal Jazz Festival back in the '90s before she started performing in the US again, then I was lucky to see her on the pier in Seattle not long before she passed.
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Sat Sep-03-05 03:17 PM
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4. Someone should write the show for it. (nt) |
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