Mississippi Goddam歌词

[00:00.000] 作词 : Nina Simone
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Nina Simone
[00:04.438](The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddam
[00:13.701]And I mean every word of it)
[00:18.954]Alabama's gotten me so upset
[00:21.695]Tennessee made me lose my rest
[00:24.690]And everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn
[00:31.446]Alabama's gotten me so upset
[00:34.436]Tennessee made me lose my rest
[00:37.186]And everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn
[00:42.958]Can't you see it
[00:44.952]Can't you feel it
[00:46.440]It's all in the air
[00:49.442]I can't stand the pressure much longer
[00:53.197]Somebody say a prayer
[00:56.201]Alabama's gotten me so upset
[00:58.699]Tennessee made me lose my rest
[01:01.695]And everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn
[01:09.197](This is a show tune, but the show hasn't been written for it, yet)
[01:20.697]Hound dogs on my trail
[01:23.197]School children sitting in jail
[01:26.691]Black cat cross my path
[01:29.198]I think every day's gonna be my last
[01:38.452]Lord have mercy on this land of mine
[01:41.448]We all gonna get it in due time
[01:44.444]I don't belong here
[01:45.941]I don't belong there
[01:47.441]I've even stopped believing in prayer
[01:56.705]Don't tell me, I'll tell you
[01:59.449]Me and my people just about due
[02:03.193]I've been there so I know
[02:05.945]They keep on saying "Go slow!"
[02:15.195]But that's just the trouble
[02:16.942]"do it slow"
[02:18.193]Washing the windows
[02:19.936]"Too slow"
[02:21.206]Picking the cotton
[02:23.185]"Too slow"
[02:24.193]You're just plain rotten
[02:26.437]"Too slow"
[02:27.448]You're too damn lazy
[02:29.202]"Too slow"
[02:30.186]The thinking's crazy
[02:32.198]"Too slow"
[02:33.443]Where am I going
[02:34.936]What am I doing
[02:36.455]I don't know
[02:37.700]I don't know
[02:39.694]Just try to do your very best
[02:41.937]Stand up, be counted with all the rest
[02:44.947]For everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn
[02:54.194](I bet you thought I was kidding, didn't you)
[03:00.941]Picket lines, school boycotts
[03:03.703]They try to say it's a communist plot
[03:06.704]All I want is equality
[03:09.198]For my sister, my brother, my people, and me
[03:17.940]Yes, you lied to me all these years
[03:21.445]You told me to wash and clean my ears
[03:24.195]And talk real fine just like a lady
[03:27.689]And you'd stop calling me Sister Sadie
[03:36.190]Oh but this whole country is full of lies
[03:39.200]You're all gonna die and die like flies
[03:42.200]I don't trust you any more
[03:45.443]You keep on saying "Go slow!"
[03:51.199]"Go slow!"
[03:54.694]But that's just the trouble
[03:56.194]"Too slow"
[03:57.442]Desegregation
[03:59.444]"Too slow"
[04:00.457]Mass participation
[04:02.444]"Too slow"
[04:03.442]Reunification
[04:05.189]"Too slow"
[04:06.445]Do things gradually
[04:08.688]"Too slow"
[04:09.696]But bring more tragedy
[04:11.708]"Too slow"
[04:12.448]Why don't you see it
[04:13.954]Why don't you feel it
[04:15.450]I don't know
[04:16.940]I don't know
[04:18.437]You don't have to live next to me
[04:21.189]Just give me my equality
[04:23.952]Everybody knows about Mississippi
[04:27.435]Everybody knows about Alabama
[04:30.442]Everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn
[04:38.941](That's it!)