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leftymusic·Music with a leftist messagebypunksnotdead

Mississippi Goddam by 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'

Picket lines

School boy cots

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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leftymusic·Music with a leftist messagebyrockSlayer

Shock-U-Py! - Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine

So to all who Occupy

And feel the spirit of Shock-u-py

Thank you

We won't go away

We can't all be here all the time

'Cause the change we want will take a long time

So tag-team like wrestling, recharge

Flush the burn-out, come back strong

Lock-gluing, sit-ins

Boycotts, die-ins

Defend foreclosed homes, occupy elections

Are one more way

A prank a day keeps the dog leash away!

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leftymusic·Music with a leftist messagebypunksnotdead

Your Call Will Be Recorded by Abrazos

We’re turning their wheels
They don’t care if we’re stressed
With no time to think
We’re all left depressed

They need us too scared to stand up and strike
They need us compliant not looking for rights
There’s more of us, we need to rise up
There’s more of us, we need to stand up

If we get together a worker lead movement
We don’t need statistics
Or their management

They need us too scared to stand up and strike
They need us compliant not looking for rights
There’s more of us, we need to rise up
There’s more of us, we need to stand up
We need to stand up and fight

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