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Thread #137854   Message #3157204
Posted By: Jim Dixon
19-May-11 - 05:36 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Crisis In Arkansas (Lord Invader)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Crisis In Arkansas (Lord Invader)
It turned out to be easier than I thought, but there are still gaps in my transcription. I think if we could get a few more people to listen and contribute suggestions, we could complete this.

I have numbered the lines for easy reference.


CRISIS IN ARKANSAS
As sung by Lord Invader

1. Yes, Governor Faubus, are you delirious?
2. If not, show me the reason why you [are] so hard on us.
3. Governor Faubus, are you delirious?
4. If not, show me the reason why you are against us.
5. In Arkansas you're making ...(?)
6. ...(?) whites and ...(?) too.
7. If I had my way, I'd surely go down
8. With a ...(?) and become that governor's ...(?)

9. Please take off that black bowtie, lay-o!
10. And that black tuxedo.
11. You're calling us names, yet you're wearing black.
12. Please take off everything black off your back.


13. Did you ever stop to think that [if] you're a human.
14. You will be a humanitarian?
15. Instead, you are encouraging segregation
16. And do not believe in integration.
17. But God made us all and in Him we trust.
18. Nobody in this world is better than us.
19. One day you will be made to realize
20. ...(?) would make us all of one size.

21. So take off that black bowtie, lay-o!
22. And that black tuxedo.
23. You hate all us blacks, yet you're wearing black.
24. Please take off everything black off your back.


25. Some said it's for political reason
26. Why you are such a naïve person,
27. But of late you have studied, everyone knows,
28. That you have a fear for ...(?).
29. That's why you are violating every law,
30. And ...(?) up pistols in Arkansas.
31. I think that if I can ...(?),
32. You are afraid of the Negroes' intelligence.

33. So take off that black bowtie, lay-o!
34. And that black tuxedo.
35. You hate all us blacks, yet you're wearing black.
36. Please take off everything black off your back.


37. In my opinion, there's nothing but ...(?) action
38. Depriving the kids of their education
39. When they can become eminent lawyers
40. Politicians, scientists and doctors
41. Like Clayton Powell or ...(?)
42. Doctor ...(?), Doctor ...(?).
43. Then they can climb the ladder of fame
44. And utilize their art on the ...(?).

45. So take off that black bowtie, lay-o!
46. And that black tuxedo.
47. You hate all us blacks, yet you're wearing black.
48. Please take off everything black off your back.