Randy Newman : Good Old Boys

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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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And 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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And they're keepin' the niggers down

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We're Rednecks, we're Rednecks

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And 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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And we're are keeping the niggers down

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We are keepin' the niggers down Now your Northern nigger's a Negro You see he's got his dignity Down here we're too ignorant to realize That 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 on 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 Fillmore in San Francisco And he's free to be put in a cage in Roxbury in Boston They're gatherin' 'em up from miles around Keepin' the niggers down We're Rednecks, we're Rednecks And we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground We're Rednecks, we're Rednecks And we're are keeping the niggers down We are keepin' the niggers down

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Got a wife, got a family, earn my livin' with my hand

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I'm a roller, in a steel mill, in downtown Birmingham

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My daddy was a barber, and a most unsightly man

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He was born in In Tuscaloosa

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But he died right here in Birmingham

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Birmingham, Birmingham

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The greatest city in Alabam'

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You can travel 'cross this entire land

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But there ain't no place like Birmingham

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Wife's named Mary, but she's called Marie

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We live in a three room house with a pepper tree

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I work all day in the factory, that's alright with me

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Got a big black dog, whose name is Dan

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Lives in my backyard, in Birmingham

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He's the meanest dog in Alabam', get 'em Dan!

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Birmingham, Birmingham

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The greatest city in Alabam'

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You can travel 'cross this entire land

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But there ain't no place like Birmingham

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You looked like a princess

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The night we met

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With your hair piled up high

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I will never forget

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I'm drunk right now, baby

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But I've got to be

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I never could tell you

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What you mean to me

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I loved you the first time I saw you

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And I always will love you Marie

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I loved you the first time I saw you

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And I always will love you Marie

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You're the song that the trees sing

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When the wind blows

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You're a flower, you're a river

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You're a rainbow

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Sometimes I'm crazy

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But I guess you know

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I'm weak and I'm lazy

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And I hurt you so

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I don't listen

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To a word you say

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And when you're in trouble

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I turn away

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But I loved you the first time I saw you

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And I always will love you Marie

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I loved you the first time I saw you

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And I always will love you Marie

Capo:

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We've taken all you've given

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But it's gettin' hard to make a livin'

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| Mr President, have pity on the working man

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We ain't asking you to love us

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You may place yourself high above us

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| Mr President, have pity on the working man

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I know it may sound funny

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But people everywhere are runnin' out of money

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We just can't make it by ourself

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It is cold and the wind is blowing

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We need something to keep us going

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Maybe you're cheap, maybe you're lyin'

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Maybe you have lost your mind

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Maybe you only think about yourself

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Too late to run, too late to cry now

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The time has come for us to say goodbye now

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Mr President have pity on the working man

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Yes baby, I've been drinking

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And I shouldn't come here, no more

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But I found myself in trouble, darling

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And I had nowhere else to go Got some whiskey from a barman Got some cocaine from a friend I just had to keep on walking, baby Till I was back in your arms again

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I'm guilty

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Yes, I'm guilty

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And I'll be guilty for the rest of my life

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Why can't I ever do, what I'm supposed to do?

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Why can nothing, nothing ever turn out right? You know, you know how it is, baby You know, I can't take care of myself And it takes a whole lot of medicine For me to pretend that I'm somebody else

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What has happened down here is the wind has changed

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Clouds rolled in from the north and it starts to rain

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It rained real hard and it rained for a real long time

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Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

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The river rose all day the river rose all night

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Some people got lost in the flood some people got away all right

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The river had busted through clear down to Plaquemine

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Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

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Louisiana, Louisiana

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They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away

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Louisiana, Louisiana

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They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away

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President Coolidge came down in a railroad train

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With a little fat man with a notepad in his hand

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President say: "Little fat man isn't it a shame

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What the river has done to this poor crackers' land?"

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Louisiana, Louisiana

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They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away

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Louisiana, Louisiana

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They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away

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They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away

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Why weep or slumber America?

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Land of brave and true

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There's castles and clothing and food for all

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All belongs to you

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Every man a king every man a king

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For you can be a millionaire

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If there's something belonging to others

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There's enough for all people to share

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When it's sunny June and December too

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Or in the winter time or spring

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There'll be peace without end

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Every neighbor a friend

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And every man a king

There's a hundred thousand Frenchmen in New Orleans In New Orleans, there are Frenchmen everywhere But your house could fall down Your baby could drown Wouldn't one of those Frenchmen care! Everybody, gather round Loosen up your suspenders Hunker down on the ground! I'm a cracker, and you're one, too But don't I take good care of you? Who built the highway to Baton Rouge? Who put up the hospital and built you schools? Who looks after shit-kickers like you? The Kingfish do! Who gave a party at the Roosevelt Hotel And invited the whole north half of the state down there for free? The people in the city Had their eyes bugging out 'Cause every one of you Looked just like me! Here come the Kingfish, the Kingfish Everybody sing! It's the Kingfish, the Kingfish Every man a king! Who took on the Standard Oil men And whipped their ass Just like he promised he'd do? Ain't no Standard Oil men gonna run this state Gonna be run by little folks like me and you! It's the Kingfish, the Kingfish Friend of the working man! It's the Kingfish, the Kingfish The Kingfish gonna save this land!

Old lady lost in the city In the middle of a cold, cold night It was fourteen below and the wind start to blow There wasn't a boy scout in sight Pull down the shades 'cause he's comin' Turn out the lights 'cause he's here Runnin' hard down the street Through the snow and the sleet On the coldest night of the year Beware, beware, beware of the Naked Man Old lady head up toward Broad Street Shufflin' uptown against the wind She had started to cry, wiped a tear from her eye And looked back to see where she had been Old lady stand on the corner With a purse in her hand She does not know but in a minute or so She will be robbed by a naked man Beware, beware, beware of the Naked Man Old lady lean against a lamp-post Starin' down at the ground on which she stand She look up and scream For in the lamplight's beam There stood the famous Naked Man He say, "They found out about my sister And kicked me out of the Navy They would have strung me up if they could I tried to explain that we were both of us lazy And were doing the best we could" He faked to the left and he faked to the right And he snatched the purse fromere hand "Someone stop me," he cried As he faded from sight "Won't nobody help a naked man?" "Won't nobody help a naked man?" Beware, beware, beware of the Naked Man

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There she is

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Sitting there

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Out behind the smokehouse

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In her rocking chair

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She don't say nothin'

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She don't do nothin'

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She don't feel nothin'

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She don't know nothin'

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Maybe she's crazy, I don't know

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Maybe that's why I love her so

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Her papa was a midget

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Her mama was a whore

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Her granddad was a newsboy

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'Til he was eighty-four (what a slimy old bastard he was!)

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Man don't you think I know she hates me

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Man don't you think I know that she's no good

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If she knew how she'd be unfaithful to me

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I think she'd kill me if she could

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Maybe she's crazy I don't know

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Maybe that's why I love her so

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I'm not afraid of the grey wolf

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Who stalks through our forest at dawn

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As long as I have her beside me

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I have the strength to carry on

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Today we will be married

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And all the freaks that she knows will be there

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And all the people from the village

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Will be there to congratulate us

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I will carry her across the threshold

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I will make dim the light

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I will attempt to spend my love within her

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Though I will try with all my might

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She will laugh at my mighty sword

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She will laugh at my mighty sword

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Why must everybody laugh at my mighty sword?

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Lord, help me if you will

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Maybe we're both crazy, I don't know

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Maybe that's why I love her so

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Doctor, let me tell you something about myself

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I'm a college man and I'm very wealthy

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I've got no time to trifle with trash like you

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'Cause I must be 'bout my business

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My brother's a machinist in a textile mill

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And he makes more money than you ever will

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He just got married to a Polish girl

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With a space between her teeth

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My sister's a dancer up in Baltimore

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At a small cafe on Main

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But she ran off with a Negro from the Eastern Shore

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) Doctor, she didn't even know his name

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Get me back on my feet again

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) Back on my feet again

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Open the door and set me free

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* Get me back on my feet again

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He took her down to Mobile in a railroad train

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He said, "Driver, take me to the Hotel Paree"

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He went into the washroom, washed his face and hands, and Doctor

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) When he come out he was white as you and me

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He said, "Girl, I ain't a Negro, I'm a millionaire

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As you can plainly see

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So many women were after my money

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"Gonna teach you to play polo and how to water-ski

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Won't have to dance no more

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And I no longer have to pretend to be

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) A Negro from the Eastern Shore"

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Get me back on my feet again

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) Back on my feet again

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Open the door and set me free

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** Get me back on my feet again

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Doctor, doctor, what you say

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How 'bout letting me out today?

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Ain't no reason for me to stay

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Get me back on my feet again

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) Back on my feet again

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Open the door and set me free

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** Get me back on my feet again

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I never drink in the afternoon

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And I never drink alone

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But I sure do like a drink or two

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When I get home Every evening what I do I sit here in this chair I pour myself some whiskey And watch my troubles vanish into the air

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Rollin', rollin'

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Ain't gonna worry no more Rollin', rollin'

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Ain't gonna worry no more Used to worry about gamblin' Throwin' my money away Used to worry about wastin' time And layin' round the house all day

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But I'm all right now

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I'm all right now

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I never thought I'd make it

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But I always did somehow

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I'm all right now Rollin', rollin' Ain't gonna worry no more Rollin', rollin' Ain't gonna worry no more

Randy Newman : Good Old Boys
1974

Rednecks

Birmingham

Marie

Mr President (Have Pity On The Working Man)

Guilty

Louisiana 1927

Every Man A King

Kingfish

Naked Man

A Wedding In Cherokee County

Back On My Feet Again

Rollin'

Randy Newman : Good Old Boys 1974

Rednecks

Birmingham

Marie

Mr President (Have Pity On The Working Man)

Guilty

Louisiana 1927

Every Man A King

Kingfish

Naked Man

A Wedding In Cherokee County

Back On My Feet Again

Rollin'

Randy Newman : Good Old Boys
1974