Johnny Rebel

Damn, I Wish I Was A Nigger
if i was a nigger...i could drive a cadillac with class my pocket stuffed with welfare checks, and i could sit on my big black ass now you take a nigger, he aint nobody's fool, he doesn't buy any gasoline to drive his kids to school damn i wish i was a nigger our government has gone crazy, id change things if i could if i was only a nigger, i could afford to live in a white neighborhood oh the things that i could do, if i was black and hell bent i could send my kids to college, and it wouldn't cost me one damn cent damn i wish i was a nigger the wife and i were down on our luck, we were really getting uptight they said at the welfare office, you aint black you're white oh how I've tried to get a job, a diploma i had with pride the post office man laughed and said youre not dark enough to even qualify damn i wish i was a nigger i took a civil service exam, and passed it without shame a nigger took one next to me, and he couldnt even write his own name the nigger, he got the job, now he's government top brass? he couldn't qualify for a trash truck, I'm out on the street on my ass damn i wish i was a nigger if i was a Jesse Jackson, id be nobody's slob wearin $500.00 dollar suits, that nigger hasn't even got a job if i was Jackson Brown, i could sit back and relax and if elected president, could paint the white house black damn i wish i was a nigger if i was a jig-a-boo, i could find me my roots with a afro big as a watermelon, and a pair of white disco boots Songtexteif i was only dark complexioned, i could stand tall in this life i could eat high off the hog, just me and my white wife damn i wish i was a nigger things are supposed to be segregated, but things are a little off key I've never seen a white man, head...of the NAACP it aint that i don't like a nigger, if I've rubbed you wrong by chance take a look at that mistletoe, hanging on the seat of my pants damn i wish i was a nigger if i was a kinky top, i could be a Martin Luther King id have me a vision on a mountain top, my song the whole world would sing i could have me a peace march, on the streets of Memphis, Tennessee i could tare up the whole damn city, and the police wouldn't dare stop me damn i wish i was a nigger a lot of things in life i know, but one thing i cant figure why a nigger can call me a honkey, and i cant call a nigger a nigger if i was a jungle bunny, i could ring a golden bell i could be a Mohammed Ali, and be loved by Howard Coozell damn i wish i was a nigger if i was a you-bangy, 7 foot tall and lean i could be a famous player, on the Washington basketball team if i was only chocolate brown, i could have me some turnip greens a possum fat an watermelon, chitlens and a pot of butter beans damn i wish i was a nigger now when Martin Luther King, was buried in Washington with class face down in his box, so the politicians could kiss his ass i guess its just politics, and it sure gets my goat kiss assin with a nigger, just to get his vote damn i wish i was a nigger if i was only a ?birdhead?, id live high on the hill sellin cocaine and prostitutes, and poppin all kinds of pills now take the NAACP, they can march and raise all kinds of hell let the KKK start to move, and they'll all wind up in jail damn i wish i was a nigger i dreamed my life was over, i heard saint peter say today we're taken on the niggers, you've gotta go the..other way then i heard the devil, he said i heard what peter had to say but I'm sorry to tell you son, today in hell...is nigger day damn don't you wish you were a nigger I'm going back to the hills of Arkansas, where they don't have those not damn one sided nigger peace marches protesters, welfare check grabbers, I'm gon' plant me some turnip greens in a watermelon patch raise me a hog, and a big fat possum i said yes i am you mother Aus Songtexte Mania