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
Intro: G(add Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show G(add with some smart-ass New York Jew. G(addA7/C# And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox Gsus4/D and the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too. G(add Well, he may be a fool, but he's our fool. G(addA7/C# If they think they're better than him, they're wrong. Em7/DA7/C# So I went to the park and I took some paper along Gsus4/D and that's where I made this song.
Verse 1:
We talk real funny down here.
We drink too much and we laugh too loud.
We're too dumb to make it in no Northern town,
and we're keepin' the niggers down.
We got no-necked oilmen from Texas,
good ol' boys from Tennessee,
college men from L.S.U.
Went in dumb, come out dumb too.
Hustlin' 'round Atlanta in their alligator shoes.
Gettin' drunk ev'ry weekend at the barbuques,
and they're keepin' the niggers down.
CHORUS:
We're Rednecks, we're Rednecks,
and we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.
We're Rednecks, we're Rednecks,
and we're are keeping the niggers down.
(last time only--slowly)
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.