Walkin' down to Birmingham,way down south in Dixieland.I thought that I would stop a whileTake a vacation Southern styleGot some Southern hospitality...down there in a Southern hospital.Well, all the signs said Welcome in,Welcome if you're white my friend.Come along and watch the fightsWhile we feed our dogs on civil rights.We believe in segregation...Negroes in one mob...Policemen, politicians, dogs in the otherWell I've seen travel in many waysI've traveled in cars and old subwaysBut in Birmingham some people choseTo fly down the street from a fire hose.Doin' some hard travelin'...from hydrants of plenty.Well a pack of dogs was standin' byI walked up to them and I said HiWell I asked one dog what they all were doin'He walked up to me and started chewin'It was a black dog...seems everybody down there is prejudiced.Well I said there must be some men aroundThere can't be only you dogs in townThey said Sure we have old Bull ConnerThere he goes, walkin' yonderThrowin' some raw meat to the mayor...feedin' bones to the City CouncilWell I said there's still something missing here,You must have a governor somewhere.Sure, he's doin' his duty, he ain't no foolHe's blocking out kids from our schoolsStandin' in the doorway...crackin' jokes...gettin' re-elected.So, I asked em' how they spend their timeWith segregation on their mind.They said if you don't like to live this wayGet outta here, go back to the U.S.A.Live with all them Russians...New York agitatiors...yeah.Some say they've passed their darkest hourThose moderates are back in power.But listen close with open earsThey'll help us out in a couple a hundred years.But don't push 'em...whatever you do...or else you get those extremists back in.You see Alabama is a soveriegn stateWith soveriegn dogs and soveriegn hateThey stand for the Bible, for the ConstitutionThey stand against Communist revolution.They say: It's pinkos like you that freed the slaves.
Lyrics by Phil Ochs
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