[Spoken Introduction]
[G6]
The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddam
And I mean every word of it
[Verse 1] x2
[G6]
Alabama's gotten me so upset
[Am7] [D7]
Tennessee made me lose my rest
[Am/C] [Bdim7] [Am/C] [D] [C/E] [D/F#] [G] [G] [Am7] [D7]
And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
[G11]
Can't you see it
[G]
Can't you feel it
[Cmaj7]
It's all in the air
[A7] [D7]
I can't stand the pressure much longer
Somebody say a prayer
Chorus
[G6]
Alabama's gotten me so upset
[Am7] [D7]
Tennessee made me lose my rest
[Am/C] [Bdim7] [Am/C] [D] [C/E] [D/F#] [G] F#m7sus4 [B7]
And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
[Em]
(This is a show tune, but the show hasn't been written for it, yet)
Verse 2
[Em]
Hound dogs on my trail
[F#m7b5]
School children sitting in jail
[B7]
Black cat cross my path
[Em7] [B7] [Em]
I think every day's gonna be my last
[Em]
Lord have mercy on this land of mine
We all gonna get it in due time
[F#m7b5]
I don't belong here
[B7]
I don't belong there
[Em7] [B7] [Em]
I've even stopped believing in prayer
[Em]
Don't tell me, I'll tell you
[F#m7b5]
Me and my people just about due
[B7]
I've been there so I know
[Em7] [B7] [Em]
They keep on saying "Go slow!"
Refrain
[Em]
But that's just the trouble
"too slow"
[Em]
Washing the windows
"too slow"
[Am7]
Picking the cotton
"too slow"
[Em]
You're just plain rotten
"too slow"
[F#/C#]
You're too damn lazy
"too slow"
[Am/C] [B7]
The thinking's crazy
"too slow"
[C/E] [F9]
Where am I going
[Em7] [A7]
What am I doing
[Eb7] [Eb7]
I don't know
[D11] [D7]
I don't know
[G6]
Just try to do your very best
[Am7] [D7]
Stand up, be counted with all the rest
[Am/C] [Bdim7] [Am/C] [D] [C/E] [D/F#] [G] [G] F#m7sus4 [B7]
Cause everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
[Em]
(I bet you thought I was kidding, didn't you)
Verse 3
[Em]
Picket lines, school boycotts
They try to say it's a communist plot
[F#m7b5] [B7]
All I want is equality
[Em7] [B7] [Em7]
For my sister, my brother, my people, and me
[Em]
Yes, you lied to me all these years
You told me to wash and clean my ears
[F#m7b5] [B7]
And talk real fine just like a lady
[Em7] [B7] [Em7]
And you'd stop calling me Sister Sadie
[Em]
Oh but this whole country is full of lies
You're all gonna die and die like flies
[F#m7b5] [B7]
I don't trust you any more
[Em7] [B7] [Em7]
You keep on saying "Go slow!"
"Go slow!"
Refrain
[Em]
But that's just the trouble
"too slow"
Desegregation
"too slow"
[Am7]
Mass participation
"too slow"
[Em7]
Reunification
"too slow"
[F#/C#]
Do things gradually
"too slow"
[Am/C] [B7]
But bring more tragedy
"too slow"
[C/E] [F9#11]
Why don't you see it
[Em7] [A7]
Why don't you feel it
[Eb7] [Eb7]
I don't know
[D11] [D7]
I don't know
Chorus
[G6]
You don't have to live next to me
[Am7] [B7]
Just give me my equality
[Am/C] [Bdim7] [A/C] [D] [C/E] [D/F#]
Cause everybody knows about Mississippi
[Am/C] [Bdim7] [A/C] [D] [C/E] [D/F#]
Everybody knows about Alabama
[Am/C] [Bdim7] [A/C] [D] [C/E] [D/F#] [G] [G] [F9] [F9] [G] [F9] [G] [F9] [G]
Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
[Spoken Outro]
That's it!
