Mississippi Goddam-Nina Simone

[ti:Mississippi Goddamm] [ar:Nina Simone] [al:Empress Live!] [by:] [offset:0] [00:06.81]Alabama's gotten me so upset [00:09.88]Tennessee made me lose my rest [00:11.88]And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam [00:14.81]Alabama's gotten me so upset [00:19.38]Tennessee made me lose my rest [00:20.88]And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam [00:27.57]Can't you see it [00:32.38]Can't you feel it [00:34.07]It's all in the air [00:37.76]I can't stand the pressure much longer [00:41.63]Somebody say a prayer [00:44.26]Alabama's gotten me so upset [00:47.07]Tennessee made me lose my rest [00:50.19]And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam [00:59.32] [01:12.31]This is a show tune [01:13.31]But the show hasn't been written for it yet [01:14.94]Hound dogs on my trail [01:15.75]School children sitting in jail [01:15.88]Black cat cross my path [01:16.06]I think every day's gonna be my last [01:23.87]Lord have mercy on this land of mine [01:26.94]We all gonna get it in due time [01:29.88]I don't belong here [01:31.38]I don't belong there [01:32.75]I've even stopped believing in prayer [01:39.81]Don't tell me [01:40.69]I tell you [01:41.94]Me and my people just about due [01:45.38]I've been there so I know [01:48.19]They keep on saying "Go slow " [01:57.25]But that's just the trouble [02:01.06]"do it slow" [02:01.82]Washing the windows [02:02.44]"do it slow" [02:03.38]Picking the cotton [02:05.56]"do it slow" [02:06.50]You're just plain rotten [02:07.57]"do it slow" [02:09.69]You're too damn lazy [02:11.19]"do it slow" [02:12.69]The thinking's crazy [02:14.19]"do it slow" [02:14.75]Where am I going [02:17.13]What am I doing [02:17.88]I don't know [02:18.56]I don't know [02:19.13] [02:23.63]Just try to do your very best [02:25.26]Stand up be counted with all the rest [02:28.83]For everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam [02:35.32] [02:46.16]I made you thought I was kiddin' didn't we [02:47.72]Picket lines [02:48.04]School boycotts [02:48.42]They try to say it's a communist plot [02:49.79]All I want is equality [02:50.60]For my sister my brother my people and me [02:58.85]Yes you lied to me all these years [03:01.85]You told me to wash and clean my ears [03:04.97]And talk real fine just like a lady [03:08.04]And you'd stop calling me Sister Sadie [03:17.35]Oh but this whole country is full of lies [03:20.35]You're all gonna die and die like flies [03:23.42]I don't trust you any more [03:25.48]You keep on saying "Go slow " [03:32.67]"Go slow " [03:33.29]But that's just the trouble [03:34.35]"do it slow" [03:35.35]Desegregation [03:35.60]"do it slow" [03:37.11]Mass participation [03:37.54]"do it slow" [03:38.35]Reunification [03:38.54]"do it slow" [03:39.23]Do things gradually [03:42.29]"do it slow" [03:42.86]But bring more tragedy [03:43.85]"do it slow" [03:44.79]Why don't you see it [03:47.42]Why don't you feel it [03:49.73]I don't know [03:54.10]I don't know [03:55.60]You don't have to live next to me [04:00.36]Just give me my equality [04:03.23]Everybody knows about Mississippi [04:04.54]Everybody knows about Alabama [04:09.92]Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam [04:13.23]That's it for now see ya' later