The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddamn, and I mean every word of it. Alabama's got me so upset, Tennessee made me lose my rest, and everybody knows about Mississippi Goddamn. Alabama's got me so upset, Tennessee made me lose my rest, and everybody knows about Mississippi Goddamn. Can't you see it, can't you feel it, it's all in the air. I can't stand the pressure much longer, somebody say a prayer. Alabama's got me so upset, Tennessee made me lose my rest, and everybody knows about Mississippi Goddamn. This is a show tune, but the show hasn't been written for it yet. Hound dogs on my trail, school children sittin' in jail, black cat cross my path, I think every day's gonna be my last. Lord have mercy on this land of mine, we all gonna get it in due time, I don't belong here, I don't belong there, I've even stopped believing in prayer. Don't tell me, I'll tell you, me and my people just about do, I've been there so I know, I keep on saying go slow, but that's just the trouble, washin' the windows, pickin' the cotton, you're just plain rotten, you're too damn lazy, you're thinkin' crazy. Where am I goin', what am I doin', I don't know, I don't know, just try to do your very best, stand up, be counted with all the rest, cause everybody knows about Mississippi Goddamn. You thought I was kiddin', picket lines, school boycotts, they try to say it's 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'd stop callin' me Sister Sadie. Oh, but this whole country is full of lies, you all gonna die and die like flies, I don't trust you anymore, you keep on sayin' go slow, go slow, but that's just the trouble, desegregation, mass participation, unification, do things gradually, but bring more tragedy, why don't you see it, why don't you feel it, I don't know, I don't know, you don't have to live next to me, just give me my equality, cause everybody knows about Mississippi, everybody knows about Alabama, everybody knows about Mississippi Goddamn. That's it!