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From: HENSCHJ5753@uni.edu
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 16:47:54 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Randy Newman-Rednecks
This was requested from an individual so I though i would also post it to
nevada. This is basically a piano song (most Newman songs are), but I think
the chords are pretty close. I apologize for any mistakes, but this is my
first posting of music. I hope to do many more.
Jeff B.
Rednecks--Randy Newman
From--Good 'Ole Boys
Intro:
Em7 G(add A)/B Em7
Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show
Em7 G(add A)/B Em7
with some smart-ass New York Jew.
Em7 G(add A)/B A7/C#
And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
C/D Gsus4/D G
and the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too.
Em7 G(add A)/B Em7
Well, he may be a fool, but he's our fool.
Em7 G(add A)/B A7/C#
If they think they're better than him, they're wrong.
Em7 Em7/D C A7/C#
So I went to the park and I took some paper along
C/D Gsus4/D G
and that's where I made this song.
Verse 1:
G D7 G D7
We talk real funny down here.
G D7 G D7
We drink too much and we laugh too loud.
G D/F# Em7
We're too dumb to make it in no Northern town,
A7 C/D G D7
and we're keepin' the niggers down.
G D7 G D7
We got no-necked oilmen from Texas,
G D7 G D7
good ol' boys from Tennessee,
G D/F# Em7
college men from L.S.U.
G D/F# Em7
Went in dumb, come out dumb too.
G D/F# Em7
Hustlin' 'round Atlanta in their alligator shoes.
G D/F# Em7
Gettin' drunk ev'ry weekend at the barbuques,
A7 C/D G
and they're keepin' the niggers down.
CHORUS:
G C G C
We're Rednecks, we're Rednecks,
G D7 Em7 C7
and we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.
G D7 G D7
We're Rednecks, we're Rednecks,
A7 C/D G
and we're are keeping the niggers down.
(last time only--slowly)
E7 A7 C/D G
We are keepin' the niggers down.
Verse 2:
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 on 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.
(CHORUS)
