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Mississippi Goddam [*]
Nina Simone

The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddam
And I mean every word of it

Alabama's gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam

Alabama's gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam

Can't you see it
Can't you feel it
It's all in the air
I can't stand the pressure much longer
Somebody say a prayer

Alabama's gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam

This is a show tune
But the show hasn't been written for it, yet

Hound dogs on my trail
School children sitting in jail
Black cat cross my path
I think every day's gonna be my last

Lord have mercy on this land of mine
We all gonna get it in due time
I don't belong here
I don't belong there
I've even stopped believing in prayer

Don't tell me
I tell you
Me and my people just about due
I've been there so I know
They keep on saying 'Go slow!'

But that's just the trouble
'Do it slow'
Washing the windows
'Do it slow'
Picking the cotton
'Do it slow'
You're just plain rotten
'Do it slow'
You're too damn lazy
'Do it slow'
The thinking's crazy
'Do it slow'
Where am I going
What am I doing
I don't know
I don't know

Just try to do your very best
Stand up be counted with all the rest
For everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam

I made you thought I was kiddin'

Picket lines
School boy cots
They try to say it's a communist plot
All I want is equality
For my sister my brother my people and me

Yes you lied to me all these years
You told me to wash and clean my ears
And talk real fine just like a lady
And you'd stop calling me Sister Sadie

Oh but this whole country is full of lies
You're all gonna die and die like flies
I don't trust you any more
You keep on saying 'Go slow!'
'Go slow!'

But that's just the trouble
'Do it slow'
Desegregation
'Do it slow'
Mass participation
'Do it slow'
Reunification
'Do it slow'
Do things gradually
'Do it slow'
But bring more tragedy
'Do it slow'
Why don't you see it
Why don't you feel it
I don't know
I don't know

You don't have to live next to me
Just give me my equality
Everybody knows about Mississippi
Everybody knows about Alabama
Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam


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Lyrics by Nina Simone

  22nd Century   African Mailman   African Mailman [*]   African Mailman [Instrumental]   As used in the film One Night Stand   Central Park Blues   Central Park Blues [Instrumental]   Come Ye [#]   Compensation   Cottom Eyed Joe   Do I Move You?   Do I Move You? [Version 2]   Do I Move You? [Version II][#]   Do What You Gotta Do [Live]   Feeling Good [*]   Feeling Good [Album Version]   Feeling Good [The Assassin]   For All We Know [*]   Four Women [*]   Four Women [Live]   Gin House Blues [Live]   God Bless the Child   Good Bait   House of the Rising Sun [Live]   I Love My Baby   I Loves You, Porgy   I Loves You, Porgy [*]   I Loves You, Porgy [From Porgy and Bess]   I Loves You, Porgy [From Porgy and Bess][Mix]   I Loves You, Porgy [Live]   I Loves You, Porgy [Original 1959 Hit Version]   I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl [Live]   In Love in Vain   In Love in Vain [#]   In the Morning [*]   In the Morning [#]   Jelly Roll [#]   Just in Time [Live]   Just in Time...   Little Girl Blue [Live]   Little Girl Blue [Mono Alternate Take][Alternate T...   Little Girl Blue [Mono Alternative Take][Live]   Man With a Horn [#]   Mississippi Goddam [#]   Mississippi Goddam [Live]   Music for Lovers [#]   My Baby Just Cares for Me [*]   My Baby Just Cares for Me [Extended Version]   My Baby Just Cares for Me [Live]   Ne Me Quitte Pas [*]   Ne Me Quitte Pas [If You Go Away]   Night Song [From Golden Boy]   Old Jim Crow [Live]   Parliament Square   Pirate Jenny [Live]   Revolution, Pt. 1   See Line Woman   See Line Woman [Live]   Summertime [Instrumental]   Summertime [Live]   Summertime [Vocal Version]   Suzanne [#]   Take My Hand, Precious Lord   The Backlash Blues   The Family   The Folks Who Live on the Hill   The Gin House Blues   The House of the Rising Sun   The House of the Rising Sun [Live]   The Human Touch   The Last Rose of Summer   The Laziest Gal in Town   The Look of Love   The Look of Love [From Casino Royale]   The Man With a Horn   The More I See You   The Other Woman   The Other Woman [Live]   The Pusher   The Thrill Is Gone   The Twelfth of Never   To Be Young, Gifted and Black [Live]   Trouble in Mind   Try a Little Tenderness   What More Can I Say?   Where Can I Go Without You?   Who Knows Where the Time Goes?   Why   Why? (The King of Love Is Dead) [#]   Wild Is the Wind [Live]

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