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Verse 1As far back as |
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I can remember |
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I either had a plow or hoe |
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One of those 'ole nine foot sacsstanding at the old turn row(Chorus) |
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Down in Mississippi |
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Down in Mississippi |
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Down in Mississippi where |
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I was born |
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Down in Mississippi where i come from |
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Verse 2They had a hunting season on the rabbit |
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If you shoot em you went to jail |
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Season was a always open on me |
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Nobody needed no band |
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ChorusVerse 3 |
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I remember, |
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I use to walk down that gravel road, walking with my grandma, |
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Mississippi sun, beaming down |
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I went to get some water |
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My grandma said, young 'un you can't drink that water, she said you drink from that fountain over there, hehaand that fountain had a signsaid "for colored only" |
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I was so glad |
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I had my grandma and my papa, a huh, and |
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I wont leave you out grandpa |
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My grandpa was so pround of me yall |
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I went down in forest |
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Mississippi one time na,didn't know no better, but i intergrated, awasheteria |
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He was telling everybody, my grandbaby mavis, she went up to washeteria and washed some clothes, and all the black ladies followed her on up in there, |
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I'm proud of my grandbaby, |
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I saw many more of those signs as |
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I lived in |
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Mississippi, |
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I'm so glad |
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I can say that |
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I saw every one of those signs, |
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Dr. King saw that every one of those signs was taken down, down in |
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Mississippi |
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