From: HENSCHJ5753@uni.edu
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 16:47:54 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Randy Newman-Rednecks
This was requested from an individual so I though i would also post it to
nevada. This is basically a piano song (most Newman songs are), but I think
the chords are pretty close. I apologize for any mistakes, but this is my
first posting of music. I hope to do many more.
Jeff H.
Rednecks--Randy Newman
From--Good `Ole Boys
Intro:
Em7 G(add A)/B Em7
Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show
Em7 G(add A)/B Em7
with some smart-ass New York Jew.
Em7 G(add A)/B A7/C
And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
C/D Gsus4/D G
and the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too.
Em7 G(add A)/B Em7
Well, he may be a fool, but he`s our fool.
Em7 G(add A)/B A7/C
If they think they`re better than him, they`re wrong.
Em7 Em7/D C A7/C
So I went to the park and I took some paper along
C/D Gsus4/D G
and that`s where I made this song.
Verse 1:
G D7 G D7
We talk real funny down here.
G D7 G D7
We drink too much and we laugh too loud.
G D/F Em7
We`re too dumb to make it in no Northern town,
A7 C/D G D7
and we`re keepin` the niggers down.
G D7 G D7
We got no-necked oilmen from Texas,
G D7 G D7
good ol` boys from Tennessee,
G D/F Em7
college men from L.S.U.
G D/F Em7
Went in dumb, come out dumb too.
G D/F Em7
Hustlin` `round Atlanta in their alligator shoes.
G D/F Em7
Gettin` drunk ev`ry weekend at the barbuques,
A7 C/D G
and they`re keepin` the niggers down.
CHORUS:
G C G C
We`re Rednecks, we`re Rednecks,
G D7 Em7 C7
and we don`t know our ass from a hole in the ground.
G D7 G D7
We`re Rednecks, we`re Rednecks,
A7 C/D G
and we`re are keeping the niggers down.
(last time only--slowly)
E7 A7 C/D G
We are keepin` the niggers down.
Verse 2:
Now your Northern nigger`s a Negro
You see he`s got his dignity
Down here we`re too ignorant to realize
That the North has set the nigger free.
Yes, he`s free to be put in a cage in Harlem in New York City
And he`s free to be put in a cage on the South side of Chicago and
the West side
And he`s free to be put in a cage in Hough in Cleveland
And he`s free to be put in a cage in East St. Louis
And he`s free to be put in a cage in Fillmore in San Francisco
And he`s free to be put in a cage in Roxbury in Boston.
They`re gatherin` `em up from miles around,
Keepin` the niggers down.
(CHORUS)
