Tonart: E minor•
Verse 1
Em
Last night I saw Lester Maddox
on a TV show
Bm
Em
With some smart ass New York Jew
Bm
A
And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
D
And the audience laughed at
Verse 2
Em
Well, he may be a fool but he's our fool
Bm
If they think they're better than him,
Em
D
So I went to the park and I
C
A
took some pa per along
D
An d that's where I made
this song
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D
Verse 3
G
D
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D
We talk real funny down here
G
D
We drink too much and we laugh
G
D
too loud
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D
We're too dumb to make it no
A
D
G
D
We keepin' the niggers down
Verse 4
G
We got no-necked oilmen
D
G
D
from Texas
G
D
G
And good ol' boys from Tennessee
D
G
D
Em
G
And college men from L.S.U.
D
Em
Went in dumb, come out dumb too
Verse 5
G
D
Hustlin' 'round Atlanta
Em
in their alligator shoes
D
Em
weekend at the barbecues
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D
G
We keepin' the niggers down
Verse 6
G
C
We're rednecks, we're
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C
rednecks
G
D
We don't know our ass from
Em
C
a hole in the ground
G
D
We're rednecks, we're
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D
A
rednecks
D
G
We keepin' the niggers down
Interlude 1
A
D
G
C
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D
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D
Now your northern nigger's
Verse 7
D
G
D
a Negro
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D
G
D
You see, he's got his dignity
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D
Em
Down here we're too ignorant to realize
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D
G
D
That the North has set the nigger free
Verse 8
D
G
D
Yes, he's free to be put in a cage
Em
in Harlem in New York City
G
D
And he's free to be put in a cage
Em
In the South-Side of of Chicago,
D
Em
And And he's free to be put
in a cage in Hough in Cleveland
G
D
And he's free to be put
Em
in a cage in East St. Louis
Verse 9
G
D
And he's free to be put in a cage
Em
in Fillmore in San Francisco
G
D
And he's free to be put in a cage
Em
in Roxbury in Boston
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D
They're gatherin' 'em
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C
up from miles around
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D
G
Keepin' the niggers down
G
We're
Verse 10
C
G
C
rednecks, we're rednecks
G
D
We don't know our ass from
Em
C
a hole in the ground
G
D
We're rednecks, we're
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D
A
rednecks
D
E
We keepin' the niggers down
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D
G
We are keepin' the niggers down
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