[00:03.15]Alabama's gotten me so upset
[00:07.15]Tennessee made me lose my rest
[00:09.93]And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
[00:17.10]Alabama's gotten me so upset
[00:21.14]The election made me lose my rest
[00:23.63]And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
[00:29.25]Can't you see it
[00:32.38]Can't you feel it
[00:34.00]It's all in the air
[00:36.57]I can't stand the pressure much longer
[00:40.07]Somebody say a prayer
[00:43.80]Alabama's gotten me so upset
[00:47.84]L Wallace made me lose my rest
[00:50.27]And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
[01:03.13]Hound dogs on my trail
[01:06.56]School children sitting in jail
[01:10.49]Black cat cross my path
[01:12.91]I think every day's gonna be my last
[01:19.46]Lord have mercy on this land of mine
[01:22.25]We all gonna get it in due time
[01:26.02]I don't belong here
[01:27.39]I don't belong there
[01:29.27]I've even stopped believing in prayer
[01:35.44]Don't tell me
[01:37.36]I tell you
[01:39.33]Me and my people just about due
[01:42.93]I've been there so I know
[01:45.66]They keep on saying "Go slow!"
[01:51.83]But that's just the trouble
[01:55.77]"do it slow"
[01:56.48]Washing the windows
[01:58.55]"do it slow"
[01:59.55]Picking the cotton
[02:00.42]"do it slow"
[02:02.54]You're just plain rotten
[02:04.59]"do it slow"
[02:05.56]You're too damn lazy
[02:07.82]"do it slow"
[02:08.48]The thinking's crazy
[02:11.01]"do it slow"
[02:12.02]Where am I going
[02:13.28]What am I doing
[02:14.54]I don't know
[02:19.20]I don't know
[02:19.37]Just try to do my very best
[02:21.95]Stand up be counted with all the rest
[02:25.38]For everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
[02:38.86]I made you thought I was kiddin'
[02:53.57]Picket lines
[02:55.08]School boy cots
[02:56.69]They try to say it's a communist plot
[02:59.38]But all I want is equality
[03:02.26]for my sister my brother my people and me
[03:08.99]Now you listen to me, you lied to me all these years
[03:12.71]You told me to wash and clean my ears
[03:15.54]And talk real fine just like a lady
[03:19.04]And you'd stop calling me Mama Sadie
[03:25.05]Oh but this whole America is full of lies
[03:28.75]We all gonna die and die like flies
[03:32.59]I don't trust nobody any more
[03:36.25]You keep on saying "Go slow!"
[03:41.75]"Go slow!"
[03:41.64]But that's just the trouble
[03:43.45]"do it slow"
[03:45.07]Desegregation
[03:46.78]"do it slow"
[03:48.40]Mass participation
[03:49.82]"do it slow"
[03:51.89]Reunification
[03:53.61]"do it slow"
[03:55.07]Do things gradually
[03:57.04]"do it slow"
[03:57.95]But bring more tragedy
[03:59.82]"do it slow"
[04:00.93]Why don't you see it
[04:02.85]Why don't you feel it
[04:04.43]I don't know
[04:05.88]I don't know
[04:07.67]You don't have to live next to me
[04:10.60]Just give me my equality
[04:14.28]Everybody knows about Mississippi
[04:17.57]Everybody knows about Alabama
[04:20.35]Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
[04:29.55]That's it!