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From: HENSCHJ5753@uni.edu Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 16:47:54 -0600 (CST) Subject: Randy Newman-Rednecks This was requested from an individual so I though i would also post it to nevada. This is basically a piano song (most Newman songs are), but I think the chords are pretty close. I apologize for any mistakes, but this is my first posting of music. I hope to do many more. Jeff H. Rednecks--Randy Newman From--Good 'Ole Boys Intro: Em7 G(add A)/B Em7 Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show Em7 G(add A)/B Em7 with some smart-ass New York Jew. Em7 G(add A)/B A7/C# And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox C/D Gsus4/D G and the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too. Em7 G(add A)/B Em7 Well, he may be a fool, but he's our fool. Em7 G(add A)/B A7/C# If they think they're better than him, they're wrong.
So I Em7went to the Em7/Dpark and I took some Cpaper along A7/C# C/D Gsus4/D G and that's where I made this song.
Verse 1:
GWe talk real D7funny down Ghere. D7 GWe drink too D7much and we Glaugh too D7loud. We're Gtoo dumb to D/F#make it in no Em7Northern town, and we're A7keepin' the C/Dniggers Gdown. D7 We got Gno-necked D7oilmen from GTexas, D7 Ggood ol' D7boys from TennesGsee, D7 G college D/F#men from Em7L.S.U. G Went in D/F#dumb, come Em7out dumb too. GHustlin' 'round AtD/F#lanta in their Em7alligator shoes. Gettin' Gdrunk ev'ry D/F#weekend at the Em7barbuques, and they're A7keepin' the C/Dniggers Gdown.
CHORUS:
We're GRedCnecks, we're GRedCnecks, and we Gdon't know our D7ass from a Em7hole in the C7ground. We're GRedD7necks, we're GRedD7necks, and we're are A7keeping the C/Dniggers Gdown.
(last time only--slowly)
E7 We are A7keepin' the C/Dniggers Gdown. Verse 2:
Now your Northern nigger's a Negro You see he's got his dignity Down here we're too ignorant to realize That the North has set the nigger free. Yes, he's free to be put in a cage in Harlem in New York City And he's free to be put in a cage on the South side of Chicago and the West side And he's free to be put in a cage in Hough in Cleveland And he's free to be put in a cage in East St. Louis And he's free to be put in a cage in Fillmore in San Francisco And he's free to be put in a cage in Roxbury in Boston. They're gatherin' 'em up from miles around, Keepin' the niggers down. (CHORUS)