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