Reunification
For my sister my brother my people and me
Somebody say a prayer
And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
And talk real fine just like a lady
Can't you see it
Just give me my equality
You're just plain rotten
Stand up be counted with all the rest
But that's just the trouble
This is a show tune
Alabama's gotten me so upset
I don't trust you any more
Do things gradually
Oh but this whole country is full of lies
Where am I going, what am I doing?
Do it slow
I've even stopped believing in prayer
Tennessee made me lose my rest
The thinking's crazy
Do it slow
Can't you feel it it's all in the air
Do it slow
Why don't you feel it
Tennessee made me lose my rest
They keep on saying, "Go slow"
And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
You're too damn lazy
Just try to do your very best
You're all gonna die and die like flies
Everybody knows about Alabama
We all gonna get it in due time
You told me to wash and clean my ears
Alabama's gotten me so upset
Do it slow
Do it slow
Yes you lied to me all these years
I made you thought I was kiddin'
Desegregation
But bring more tragedy
Washing the windows
Me and my people just about due
They try to say it's a communist plot
I think every day's gonna be my last
Alabama's gotten me so upset
Mass participation
Do it slow
I've been there so I know
Picket lines school boy cots
Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
Do it slow
And you'd stop calling me Sister Sadie
School children sitting in jail
Do it slow
Picking the cotton
Do it slow
Don't tell me, I tell you
You keep on saying "Go slow, go slow!"
I don't know, I don't know
Why don't you see it
I don't know, I don't know
But the show hasn't been written for it, yet
But that's just the trouble
Black cat cross my path
And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
For everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
Everybody knows about Mississippi
Do it slow
Hound dogs on my trail
I can't stand the pressure much longer
Lord have mercy on this land of mine
Do it slow
Tennessee made me lose my rest
I don't belong here, I don't belong there
Do it slow
You don't have to live next to me
All I want is equality
