Randy Newman Rednecks song lyrics

Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show

With some smart-ass New York jew

The jew laughed at Lester Maddox

And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too

Well he may be a fool, but he's our fool

If they think they're better than him they're wrong

So I went to the park and I took some paper along

And that's where I made this song

We talk real funny down here

We drink to much, we laugh too loud

We're too dumb to make it in no northern town

We're keeping the niggers down

We got no-necked oil men from Texas

Good Ol' Boys from Tennessee

College men from LSU

Went in dumb, come out dumb too

Hustling around Atlanta in their alligator shoes

Getting drunk every weekend at the barbecues

And keeping the niggers 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

We're keeping the niggers down

Now your nothern nigger's a "negro"

You see, he's got his dignity

But down here we're too ignorant to realize

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 in 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 the Fillmore San Fransisco

And he's free to be put in a cage in the Roxbury in Boston

They're gatherin' them up for miles around

Keeping the niggers 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

We're keeping the niggers down