Uncle Sam Says-Josh White/Tom Glazer

[ti:Uncle Sam Says] [ar:Josh White] [al:Protest Songs Of America] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Uncle Sam Says - Josh White/Tom Glazer [00:27.49]Well airplanes flying close to land and sea [00:31.33] [00:33.02]Everybody flying but a Negro like me [00:35.84] [00:36.41]Uncle Sam says [00:37.65] [00:39.91]'Your place is on the ground; [00:41.99] [00:45.48]When I fly my airplanes [00:46.89] [00:48.28]Don't want no Negro 'round ' [00:50.74] [00:54.36]The same thing for the Navy [00:56.25] [00:56.84]When ships goes to sea [00:58.33] [00:59.79]All they got is a mess boy's job for me [01:03.15]Uncle Sam says [01:04.28] [01:06.38]'Keep on your apron son; [01:08.09] [01:11.90]You know I ain't going to [01:13.45]Let you shoot my big Navy gun ' [01:16.80] [01:20.49]Got my long government letter [01:22.97]It's my time to go [01:24.38] [01:25.31]When I got to the Army [01:27.04]Found the same old Jim Crow [01:29.18]Uncle Sam says [01:30.11] [01:32.39]'Two camps for black and white ' [01:34.10] [01:37.83]But when trouble starts [01:38.80] [01:39.94]We'll all be in that same big fight [01:42.88] [02:11.83]If you ask me I think democracy is fine [02:15.08] [02:15.93]I mean democracy without a color line [02:19.42] [02:20.01]Uncle Sam says [02:21.32] [02:23.22]'We'll live the American way ' [02:24.85] [02:28.91]Let's get together and kill Jim Crow today