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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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mer day make a white man lazy
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Verse 2
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Well, all I've ever known is poor
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Owe my skin to the country store
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Throw my walls, my roof, my door
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But he tells me I'm free
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But I fight the will to live
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Hell might take but heaven gives
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It's the only one so I'll forgive
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And I'm not the one to grieve
Verse 3
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make a white man lazy
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He sits on his porch killing time
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I gotta work to feed my wife and baby
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hard that it's a crime
Verse 4
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The white men there just
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this ain't no nigger's race
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You best get on your way"
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"Sir, I believe I've got the right"
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Said "You ain't got nothing
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And I thought I said, get out of sight!"
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Well, what was I to say?
Verse 5
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And the summer day make
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a white man lazy
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He sits on his porch killing time
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I gotta work to feed my wife and baby
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I work so god damn hard
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that it's a crime
Verse 6
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When I was 'bout the age of five
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Watched my daddy burned alive
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They cut him low and they
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Swayin' in the breeze
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The last words I heard him say
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Before they stole his
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Was "Forgive them Lord,
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Now take me to my knees"
Verse 7
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And the summer day make
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a white man lazy
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He sits on his porch killing time
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But the summer day make
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a nigger feel crazy
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Might make me do something out of line
Interlude 1
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Verse 8
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Well, I don't know but I heard tell
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Of a fungus below a place called hell
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Who would pray for me?
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But one thing I see for sure
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It's hot as hell up here I know
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And the devil lives right down the road
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It's all the same to me
Verse 9
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And a summer day make a
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white man feel lazy
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He sits on his porch killing time
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But the summer day make
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a nigger feel crazy
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Might make me do
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something out of line
Verse 10
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But if you should see my wife
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Tell her that I won't be home tonight
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So don't leave on the light
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I got a little business down the road
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And if I'm dead by sunrise
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Kiss my baby girl for me
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It ain't life if it ain't free
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I got a mighty buggin' to one love
Outro 1
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