{"id":166967,"date":"2020-08-31T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=166967"},"modified":"2020-08-17T06:55:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T05:55:49","slug":"mississippi-goddam-music-video-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/08\/mississippi-goddam-music-video-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Goddam (Music Video of the Week)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sixth Juan-les-Pins Jazz Festival<\/em>, Antibes, French Riviera (C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur), 1965<\/p>\n

“Hound dogs on my trail<\/em>
\nSchool children sitting in jail<\/em>
\nBlack cat cross my path<\/em>
\nI think every day’s gonna be my last”<\/em><\/p>\n

55 years later, what have changed in the USA? You be the judge.<\/strong><\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM
\nLYRICS:<\/strong>
\nThe name of this tune is Mississippi goddam
\nAnd I mean every word of it<\/p>\n

Alabama’s gotten me so upset
\nTennessee made me lose my rest
\nAnd everybody knows about Mississippi goddam<\/p>\n

Alabama’s gotten me so upset
\nTennessee made me lose my rest
\nAnd everybody knows about Mississippi goddam<\/p>\n

Can’t you see it
\nCan’t you feel it
\nIt’s all in the air
\nI can’t stand the pressure much longer
\nSomebody say a prayer<\/p>\n

Alabama’s gotten me so upset
\nTennessee made me lose my rest
\nAnd everybody knows about Mississippi goddam<\/p>\n

This is a show tune
\nBut the show hasn’t been written for it, yet<\/p>\n

Hound dogs on my trail
\nSchool children sitting in jail
\nBlack cat cross my path
\nI think every day’s gonna be my last<\/p>\n

Lord have mercy on this land of mine
\nWe all gonna get it in due time
\nI don’t belong here
\nI don’t belong there
\nI’ve even stopped believing in prayer<\/p>\n

Don’t tell me
\nI tell you
\nMe and my people just about due
\nI’ve been there so I know
\nThey keep on saying ‘Go slow!’<\/p>\n

But that’s just the trouble
\n‘Do it slow’
\nWashing the windows
\n‘Do it slow’
\nPicking the cotton
\n‘Do it slow’
\nYou’re just plain rotten
\n‘Do it slow’
\nYou’re too damn lazy
\n‘Do it slow’
\nThe thinking’s crazy
\n‘Do it slow’
\nWhere am I going
\nWhat am I doing
\nI don’t know
\nI don’t know<\/p>\n

Just try to do your very best
\nStand up be counted with all the rest
\nFor everybody knows about Mississippi goddam<\/p>\n

I made you thought I was kiddin’<\/p>\n

Picket lines
\nSchool boy cots
\nThey try to say it’s a communist plot
\nAll I want is equality
\nFor my sister my brother my people and me<\/p>\n

Yes you lied to me all these years
\nYou told me to wash and clean my ears
\nAnd talk real fine just like a lady
\nAnd you’d stop calling me Sister Sadie<\/p>\n

Oh but this whole country is full of lies
\nYou’re all gonna die and die like flies
\nI don’t trust you any more
\nYou keep on saying ‘Go slow!’
\n‘Go slow!’<\/p>\n

But that’s just the trouble
\n‘Do it slow’
\nDesegregation
\n‘Do it slow’
\nMass participation
\n‘Do it slow’
\nReunification
\n‘Do it slow’
\nDo things gradually
\n‘Do it slow’
\nBut bring more tragedy
\n‘Do it slow’
\nWhy don’t you see it
\nWhy don’t you feel it
\nI don’t know
\nI don’t know<\/p>\n

You don’t have to live next to me
\nJust give me my equality
\nEverybody knows about Mississippi
\nEverybody knows about Alabama
\nEverybody knows about Mississippi goddam, that’s it<\/p>\n

Songwriter: Nina Simone<\/em>
\nMississippi Goddam lyrics \u00a9 Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Warner Chappell Music Inc<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Hound dogs on my trail
\nSchool children sitting in jail
\nBlack cat cross my path
\nI think every day’s gonna be my last”
\n55 years later, what have changed in the USA? You be the judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[871],"class_list":["post-166967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-video-of-the-week","tag-music-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}