Mississippi Goddamn

Mississippi Goddamn Lyrics

Song Mississippi Goddamn
Artist Nina Simone
Album Protest Anthology
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[00:03.15] Alabama's gotten me so upset
[00:07.15] Tennessee made me lose my rest
[00:09.93] And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
[00:17.10] Alabama's gotten me so upset
[00:21.14] The election made me lose my rest
[00:23.63] And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
[00:29.25] Can't you see it
[00:32.38] Can't you feel it
[00:34.00] It's all in the air
[00:36.57] I can't stand the pressure much longer
[00:40.07] Somebody say a prayer
[00:43.80] Alabama's gotten me so upset
[00:47.84] L Wallace made me lose my rest
[00:50.27] And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
[01:03.13] Hound dogs on my trail
[01:06.56] School children sitting in jail
[01:10.49] Black cat cross my path
[01:12.91] I think every day's gonna be my last
[01:19.46] Lord have mercy on this land of mine
[01:22.25] We all gonna get it in due time
[01:26.02] I don't belong here
[01:27.39] I don't belong there
[01:29.27] I've even stopped believing in prayer
[01:35.44] Don't tell me
[01:37.36] I tell you
[01:39.33] Me and my people just about due
[01:42.93] I've been there so I know
[01:45.66] They keep on saying "Go slow!"
[01:51.83] But that's just the trouble
[01:55.77] "do it slow"
[01:56.48] Washing the windows
[01:58.55] "do it slow"
[01:59.55] Picking the cotton
[02:00.42] "do it slow"
[02:02.54] You're just plain rotten
[02:04.59] "do it slow"
[02:05.56] You're too damn lazy
[02:07.82] "do it slow"
[02:08.48] The thinking's crazy
[02:11.01] "do it slow"
[02:12.02] Where am I going
[02:13.28] What am I doing
[02:14.54] I don't know
[02:19.20] I don't know
[02:19.37] Just try to do my very best
[02:21.95] Stand up be counted with all the rest
[02:25.38] For everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
[02:38.86] I made you thought I was kiddin'
[02:53.57] Picket lines
[02:55.08] School boy cots
[02:56.69] They try to say it's a communist plot
[02:59.38] But all I want is equality
[03:02.26] for my sister my brother my people and me
[03:08.99] Now you listen to me, you lied to me all these years
[03:12.71] You told me to wash and clean my ears
[03:15.54] And talk real fine just like a lady
[03:19.04] And you'd stop calling me Mama Sadie
[03:25.05] Oh but this whole America is full of lies
[03:28.75] We all gonna die and die like flies
[03:32.59] I don't trust nobody any more
[03:36.25] You keep on saying "Go slow!"
[03:41.75] "Go slow!"
[03:41.64] But that's just the trouble
[03:43.45] "do it slow"
[03:45.07] Desegregation
[03:46.78] "do it slow"
[03:48.40] Mass participation
[03:49.82] "do it slow"
[03:51.89] Reunification
[03:53.61] "do it slow"
[03:55.07] Do things gradually
[03:57.04] "do it slow"
[03:57.95] But bring more tragedy
[03:59.82] "do it slow"
[04:00.93] Why don't you see it
[04:02.85] Why don't you feel it
[04:04.43] I don't know
[04:05.88] I don't know
[04:07.67] You don't have to live next to me
[04:10.60] Just give me my equality
[04:14.28] Everybody knows about Mississippi
[04:17.57] Everybody knows about Alabama
[04:20.35] Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
[04:29.55] That's it!
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