Mississippi Goddam(Live At Carnegie Hall, New York, 1964) - Nina Simone

作词：Nina Simone

作曲：Nina Simone

The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddam

And I mean every word of it

Alabama gotten me so upset

Tennessee made me lose my rest

And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam

Alabama gotten me so upset

Tennessee made me lose my rest

And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam

Can you see it

Can you feel it

It all in the air

I can stand the pressure much longer

Somebody say a prayer

Alabama gotten me so upset

Tennessee made me lose my rest

And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam

This is a show tune

But the show hasn been written for it yet

Hound dogs on my trail

School children sitting in jail

Black cat cross my path

I think every day gonna be my last

Lord have mercy on this land of mine

We all gonna get it in due time

I don belong here

I don belong there

I even stopped believing in prayer

Don tell me

I tell you

Me and my people just about due

I been there so I know

They keep on saying slow

But that just the trouble

it slow

Washing the windows

it slow

Picking the cotton

it slow

You just plain rotten

it slow

You too damn lazy

it slow

The thinking crazy

it slow

Where am I going

What am I doing

I don know

I don know

Just try to do your very best

Stand up be counted with all the rest

For everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam

I made you thought I was kiddin didn we

Picket lines

School boycotts

They try to say it a communist plot

All I want is equality

For my sister my brother my people and me

Yes you lied to me all these years

You told me to wash and clean my ears

And talk real fine just like a lady

And you stop calling me Sister Sadie

Oh but this whole country is full of lies

You all gonna die and die like flies

I don trust you any more

You keep on saying slow

slow

But that just the trouble

it slow

Desegregation

it slow

Mass participation

it slow

Reunification

it slow

Do things gradually

it slow

But bring more tragedy

it slow

Why don you see it

Why don you feel it

I don know

I don know

You don have to live next to me

Just give me my equality

Everybody knows about Mississippi

Everybody knows about Alabama

Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam

That it