by Randy Newman
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Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show
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With some smart-ass New York Jew
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And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
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And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too
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Well, he may be a fool but he's our fool
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If they think they're better than him they're wrong
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So I went to the park and I took some paper along
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And that's where I made this song
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We talk real funny down here
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We drink too much and we laugh too loud
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We're too dumb to make it in no Northern town
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Keepin' the niggers down
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We got no-necked oilmen from Texas
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And good ol' boys from Tennessee
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And college men from LSU
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Went in dumb - come out dumb too
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Hustlin' 'round Atlanta in their alligator shoes
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Gettin' drunk every weekend at the barbecues
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Keepin' the niggers down
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We're rednecks, we're rednecks
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We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground
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We're rednecks, we're rednecks
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We're keeping the niggers down
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Now your northern nigger's a Negro
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You see he's got his dignity
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Down here we're too ignorant to realize
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That the North has set the nigger free
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Yes he's free to be put in a cage
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In Harlem in New York City
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And he's free to be put in a cage in the South-Side of Chicago, the West-Side
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And he's free to be put in a cage in Hough in Cleveland
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And he's free to be put in a cage in East St. Louis
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And he's free to be put in a cage in Fillmore in San Francisco
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And he's free to be put in a cage in Roxbury in Boston
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They're gatherin' 'em up from miles around
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Keepin' the niggers down
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We're rednecks, we're rednecks
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And we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground
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We're rednecks, we're rednecks
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We're keeping the niggers down
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We are keeping the niggers down
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Rednecks
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Randy Newman |