Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show
With some smart-ass New York Jew
And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too
Well, he may be a fool but he's our fool
If they think they're better than him they're wrong
So I went to the park and I took some paper along
And that's where I made this song
We talk real funny down here
We drink too much and we laugh too loud
We're too dumb to make it in no Northern town
And we're keepin' the niggers down
We got no-necked oilmen from Texas
And good ol' boys from Tennessee
And colleges men from LSU
Went in dumb - come out dumb too
Hustlin' 'round Atlanta in their alligator shoes
Gettin' drunk every weekend at the barbecues
And they're keepin' the niggers down
CHORUS
We're rednecks, rednecks
And we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground
We're rednecks, we're rednecks
And we're keeping the niggers down
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 in 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
CHORUSfacing, drifting which way should it be down under beneath, the soul is lost
now absent minded i dont and i dont like it so show me the new way to my soul
embracing onto the life that was given to you and gripping tasted much time
that youve wasted and death will haunt you will it lead you to fighting off the
will to find my soul again now its time to take a lose your soul again facing
drifting which way should it be down under beneath the soul is lost now
absent minded i dont and i dont like it so show me the new way to my
sould now i found my lost soul but its all broken down
embracing onto the life that was given to you and gripping
tasted much time that youve wasted and death will haunt you
will it lead you to fighting off the will to find my soul again
now its time to take a good look at you and think about this second chance
that youve been given at life so dont abuse the time
cause if you fuck up you will lose your soul again
i found my lost soul but its all broken down