| Last night, I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show
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| With some smart ass New York Jew
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| And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
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| And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too
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| Well, he may be a fool, but he’s our fool
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| If they think they’re better than him, they’re wrong
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| So I went to the park, and I took some paper along
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| And that’s where I made this song
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| We talk real funny down here
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| We drink too much and we laugh too loud
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| We’re too dumb to make it in no Northern town
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| We’re keepin' the niggers down
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| We got no-necked oilmen from Texas
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| Good ol' boys from Tennessee
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| College men from LSU
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| Went in dumb, come out dumb too
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| Hustlin' 'round Atlanta in their alligator shoes
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| Gettin' drunk every weekend at the barbecues
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| They’re keepin' the niggers down
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| We’re rednecks, rednecks
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| We don’t know our ass from a hole in the ground
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| We’re rednecks, we’re rednecks
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| We’re keeping the niggers down
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| Now, your northern nigga’s a Negro
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| You see, he’s got his dignity
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| Down here, we too ignorant to realize
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| That the North has set the nigga free
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| Yes, he’s free to be put in a cage
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| In Harlem in New York City
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| And he’s free to be put in a cage on the South-Side of Chicago
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| And the West-Side
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| And he’s free to be put in a cage in Hough in Cleveland
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| And he’s free to be put in a cage in East St. Louis
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| And he’s free to be put in a cage in Fillmore in San Francisco
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| And he’s free to be put in a cage in Roxbury in Boston
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| They’re gatherin' 'em up from miles around
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| Keepin' the niggers down |