Rednecks

(Randy Newman)

We talk real funny down here
We drink too much n we laugh too loud
We too dumb to make it in no Northern Town
And we keepin' the nigras down

(chorus)We're Rednecks, We're Rednecks
We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground
We're Rednecks, we're rednecks
And we're keepin' the nigras down

We got no-neck oilmen from Texas
Good ol' boys from Tennessee
College 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 keepin' the nigras down

Now your Northern nigra's a Negro
You see he's got his dignity
Down here we're too iggorant to realize
The North has set the nigra free
Free to be kept in a cage in the Roxbury in Boston
Free to be kept in a cage in Hough in Cleveland
Free to be kept in a cage in Fillmore in San Francisco
Free to be kept in a cage in the South side of Chicago (and the West side)
They gatherin' em up from miles around
Keepin the nigras down

We're Rednecks, We're Rednecks
We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground
We're Rednecks, we're rednecks
And we're keepin' the nigras down

I'd be careful about throwing that first stone