Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show With some smart-ass New York Jew And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too Well, he may be a fool but he´s our fool If they think they´re better than him they´re wrong So I went to the park and I took some paper along And that´s where I made this song
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 Keepin´ the niggers down
We got no-necked oilmen from Texas And good ol´ boys from Tennessee And college men from LSU Went in dumb - come out dumb too Hustlin´ ´round Atlanta in their alligator shoes Gettin´ drunk every weekend at the barbecues
Keepin´ the niggers down
We´re rednecks, we´re rednecks We don´t know our ass from a hole in the ground We´re rednecks, we´re rednecks We´re keeping the niggers down
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 in the South-Side of Chicago, 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
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 We´re keeping the niggers down