Mississippi Goddamn

[Valley Oak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzxjKVK2bZo

[Spoken Introduction]
The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddam
And I mean every word of it (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-3395880)

[Verse 1]
Alabama's gotten me so upset (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-1263694)
Tennessee made me lose my rest (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-3395846)
And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-1263699)

Can't you see it
Can't you feel it
It's all in the air
I can't stand the pressure much longer
Somebody say a prayer (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-12314819)

[Chorus]
Alabama's gotten me so upset (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-2272810)
Tennessee made me lose my rest (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-3395846)
And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-12314822)

(This is a show tune, but the show hasn't been written for it, yet) (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-1264092)

[Verse 2]
Hound dogs on my trail (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-1263628)
School children sitting in jail (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-11167020)
Black cat cross my path (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-1263675)
I think every day's gonna be my last (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-1263635)
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</dfp-ad></defer-compile>Lord have mercy on this land of mine
We all gonna get it in due time
I don't belong here
I don't belong there (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-1263677)
I've even stopped believing in prayer (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-1264020)

Don't tell me, I'll tell you (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-10338999)
Me and my people just about due (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-1263680)
I've been there so I know
They keep on saying "Go slow!"

[Refrain]
But that's just the trouble
"do it slow" (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-1263712)
Washing the windows
"do it slow"
Picking the cotton
"do it slow" (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-2272795)
You're just plain rotten
"do it slow"
You're too damn lazy
"do it slow"
The thinking's crazy
"do it slow" (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-2272796)
Where am I going
What am I doing
I don't know
I don't know
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</dfp-ad></defer-compile>Just try to do your very best
Stand up, be counted with all the rest
For everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-12314822)

(I bet you thought I was kidding, didn't you) (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-3395983)

[Verse 3]
Picket lines, school boycotts (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-1263661)
They try to say it's a communist plot (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-1263659)
All I want is equality
For my sister, my brother, my people, and me (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-1263645)

Yes, you lied to me all these years (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-1263717)
You told me to wash and clean my ears
And talk real fine just like a lady
And you'd stop calling me Sister Sadie (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-2272799)

Oh but this whole country is full of lies (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-12314838)
You're all gonna die and die like flies
I don't trust you any more
You keep on saying "Go slow!"
"Go slow!"

[Refrain]
But that's just the trouble
"do it slow" (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-12314828)
Desegregation
"do it slow" (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-1263684)
Mass participation
"do it slow" (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-1264117)
Reunification
"do it slow"
Do things gradually
"do it slow"
But bring more tragedy (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-1263688)
"do it slow"
Why don't you see it
Why don't you feel it
I don't know
I don't know (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-12314834)
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</dfp-ad></defer-compile>[Chorus]
You don't have to live next to me
Just give me my equality (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-1263989)
Everybody knows about Mississippi
Everybody knows about Alabama (https://genius.com/Nina-simone-mississippi-goddam-lyrics#note-1263714)
Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam

[Spoken Outro]
That's it!