Mississippi Goddam-Nina Simone

[ti:Mississippi Goodman] [ar:Nina Simone] [al:The Best of Nina Simone Vol.1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mississippi Goddam - Nina Simone (妮娜·西蒙) [00:04.53]The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddam [00:08.05] [00:14.68]And I mean every word of it [00:16.09] [00:18.99]Alabama's gotten me so upset [00:21.19] [00:21.99]Tennessee made me lose my rest [00:24.75]And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam [00:29.43] [00:31.38]Alabama's gotten me so upset [00:33.64] [00:34.43]Tennessee made me lose my rest [00:37.16]And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam [00:41.66] [00:42.94]Can't you see it [00:44.87]Can't you feel it [00:46.24]It's all in the air [00:47.77] [00:49.38]I can't stand the pressure much longer [00:52.97]Somebody say a prayer [00:55.22] [00:56.02]Alabama's gotten me so upset [00:58.19] [00:58.77]Tennessee made me lose my rest [01:01.17] [01:01.70]And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam [01:06.34] [01:08.96]This is a show tune [01:10.47]But the show hasn't been written for it yet [01:12.95] [01:20.29]Hound dogs on my trail [01:22.64] [01:23.16]School children sitting in jail [01:25.72] [01:26.29]Black cat cross my path [01:28.91]I think every day's gonna be my last [01:32.12] [01:37.95]Lord have mercy on this land of mine [01:41.28]We all gonna get it in due time [01:44.04]I don't belong here [01:45.48]I don't belong there [01:47.07]I've even stopped believing in prayer [01:50.57] [01:56.23]Don't tell me [01:57.78]I tell you [01:59.51]Me and my people just about due [02:01.92] [02:02.53]I've been there so I know [02:05.26]They keep on saying "Go slow " [02:08.93] [02:14.61]But that's just the trouble [02:16.59]"To slow" [02:17.26] [02:17.83]Washing the windows [02:18.89] [02:19.65]"To Slow" [02:20.74]Picking the cotton [02:21.82] [02:22.58]"To Slow" [02:23.61]You're just plain rotten [02:25.76]"To Slow" [02:26.62]You're too damn lazy [02:28.48]"To Slow" [02:29.62]The thinking's crazy [02:31.25]"To Slow" [02:32.60]Where am I going [02:34.47]What am I doing [02:35.82]I don't know [02:37.22]I don't know [02:39.07]Just try to do your very best [02:41.44]Stand up be counted with all the rest [02:44.43]For everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam [02:49.42] [02:53.21]I made you thought I was kiddin' [02:54.80] [02:59.92]Picket lines [03:01.05]School boy cots [03:02.65] [03:03.16]They try to say it's a communist plot [03:05.24] [03:05.75]All I want is equality [03:08.06]For my sister my brother my people and me [03:12.25] [03:16.93]Yes you lied to me all these years [03:20.41]You told me to wash and clean my ears [03:23.23]And talk real fine just like a lady [03:26.47]And you'd stop calling me Sister Sadie [03:30.43] [03:35.01]Oh but this whole country is full of lies [03:38.18]You're all gonna die and die like flies [03:41.18]I don't trust you any more [03:44.25]You keep on saying "Go slow " [03:47.15] [03:49.99]"Go slow " [03:52.44] [03:53.48]But that's just the trouble [03:55.71]"To slow" [03:56.36]Desegregation [03:58.17]"To slow' [03:59.27]Mass participation [04:01.03]"To slow" [04:01.98]Reunification [04:04.24]"To slow" [04:05.56]Do things gradually [04:07.83]"To slow" [04:08.38]But bring more tragedy [04:09.89]"To slow" [04:11.14]Why don't you see it [04:12.70]Why don't you feel it [04:14.22]I don't know [04:15.67]I don't know [04:17.10]You don't have to live next to me [04:19.73]Just give me my equality [04:22.99]Everybody knows about Mississippi [04:26.23] [04:26.80]Everybody knows about Alabama [04:28.99]Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam [04:36.52] [04:37.37]That's it