Mississippi Goddam

Mississippi Goddam
 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
 If you know this song
 You can join in with us
 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!"
 Well, that's just the trouble
 "Too slow"
 Washing the windows
 "Too slow"
 Picking the cotton
 "Too slow"
 You're just plain rotten
 "Too slow"
 Too damn lazy
 "Too slow"
 Thinking's crazy
 "Too slow"
 Where am I going
 What am I doing
 I don't know
 I don't know
 Just tryin' to do my very best
 Stand up be counted with all the rest
 Cause everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
 You afraid of that word?
 Picket lines, school boy cots
 They try to say it's a communist plot
 All I want is equality
 For my sisters, my brothers, my people and me
 You lied to me all these years
 You told me to wash and clean my ears
 And talk real fine just like a lady
 You'd stop calling me Sister Sadie
 Oh but my country is full of lies
 You're all gonna die and die like flies
 Cause I don't trust you any more
 You keep on saying "Go slow!"
 That's just the trouble
 Too slow
 Desegregation
 Too slow
 Mass participation
 Too slow
 Reunification
 Too slow
 Do things gradually
 Too slow
 But bring more tragedy
 Too slow
 Why don't you feel it
 Why don't you see it
 I don't know
 I don't know
 You don't have to live next to me
 Just give me my equality
 Cause everybody knows about Mississippi
 Everybody knows about Alabama
 Everybody knows about Ronald Reagan
 Everybody knows about Margareth Tatcher
 Everybody knows about Ronald Reagan
 Everybody knows about Jesse Jackson
 Everybody knows about Michael Jackson
 Everybody knows about
 Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
 Goddam