Cuttin' Heads

Written by John Mellencamp, Carlton Ridenhour and Kyle Jason
 Hey Poppi yea ho
 Hey Poppi yea ho
 Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
 Lay low proud Poppi
 Lay low proud Poppi (shout it out)
 He's from the deep south (shout it out)
 Pass Christian Mississippi
 Where the cane breaks are burnin' every night
 Lay low proud Poppi (shout it out)
 Chant:
 Hey o
 Hey o
 O Poppi
 Hey o
 Hey o
 Hey Poppi
 Hey o
 Hey o
 Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
 Poppi had a wife
 And she was black and Poppi was white (shout it out)
 Everything was rollin' great (shout it out)
 'Til some man called her race a disgrace
 Oh no
 Chant
 Well Poppi went down to the river
 To defend the honor of his wife
 (somebody's killin' somebody)
 Gonna drown the man in the water (shout it out)
 And the water was shiny like a new knife
 But Poppi stopped at the banks of the Delta
 He said this sure ain't worth this man's life
 Someday the wind of change
 Is gonna blow on through
 And put all of these jokers right
 C'mon and sing now
 Chant
 Chuck D Rap:
 Papa got a brand new bag
 Delta blues got 'em dazed and confused
 Came a long way crazy
 Seems the abuse
 Is racism's baby
 It's wild
 'Cause I connect the word with pain
 Now some smile when they scream the name?
 Funny how the times have changed
 And the rhymes have changed
 But some cat's frame remains the same
 Agitating adjective
 What gives? die n word die
 But I wanna live
 Known' all this
 Where the word came from
 I must be 3 times stupid
 And stuck on dumb
 If I use it and confuse it
 With a term of love
 Now popular culture
 Can't stop 'til it gets enough
 Underlined in marketing campaigns
 I feel undermined
 Heard the n word promotes the bottom line
 Down by the river there's a great divide
 Let's ride
 Don't call me nigga 'cause you know I don't like it like that
 Don't call me nigga 'cause you know I don't like it like that
 Don't call me nigga 'cause you know I don't like it like that
 Don't call me nigga 'cause you know I don't like it like that
 Shout it out
 Yeah Shout it out
 Tell the world
 Shout it out
 I said
 Hey o
 Hey o
 Hey o
 Hey o
 O Poppi
 Hey o
 Hey o
 Tell the world
 Yeah Yeah Yeah
 Tell the world
 That it ain't right
 Tell the world
 Don't set us back oh Poppi
 Don't set us back now Poppi
 Tell the world