Rednecks Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
Last [Em]night I saw Lester Maddox
on a TV show
With some smart ass [Bm]New York [Em]Jew
And the Jew laughed at [Bm]Lester [A]Maddox
And the [D]audience laughed at
Lester Maddox [G]too

[Verse 2]
Well, he [Em]may be a fool but he's our fool
If they think they're better than [Bm]him,
they're [A]wrong
So [Em]I went to [D]the park and I
took some [C]pa per [A]along
[D]An d that's where I made
this song
[G][D]

[Verse 3]
[G]
We talk real [D]funny down [G]here[D]
We [G]drink too [D]much and we laugh
[G]too lou[D]d
[G]We're too dumb to [D]make it no
North[Em]ern town
[A]We keepin' [D]the niggers [G]down[D]

[Verse 4]
We got no-[G]necked oilmen
[D]from Tex[G]as[D]
[G]And good ol' [D]boys from Tenness[G]ee
[D]And [G]college men[D] fro[Em]m L.S[G].U.
Went in [D]dumb, come [Em]out dumb too

[Verse 5]
[G]Hustlin' 'round At[D]lanta
in their al[Em]ligator shoes
[G]Gettin' drunk every
[D]weekend at the bar[Em]becues
[A]We keepin' the nigger[D]s dow[G]n

[Verse 6]
[G]We're [C]rednecks, we're
[G]red[C]necks
[G]We don't [D]know our ass from
a [Em]hole in [C]the ground
[G]We're [D]rednecks, we're
[G]red[D]nec[A]ks
We keepin' the nig[D]gers [G]down

[Interlude 1]
[A][D][G][C][G][A]
[D][G]
Now your north[D]ern nigger's

[Verse 7]
[D]
[G]a Negro[D]
You [G]see, he's [D]got his [G]dignity[D]
Down [G]here we're [D]too ignorant to [Em]realize
That [A]the North has set the nig[D]ger [G]free[D]

[Verse 8]
Yes, [D]he's [G]free to be [D]put in a cage
[Em]in Harlem in New York City
And [G]he's free to [D]be put in a cage
In [Em]the South-Side of of Chicago,
the [G]West-Side
And [D]And he's free to be [Em]put
in a cage in Hough in Cleveland
[G]And he's free to [D]be put
in a [Em]cage in East St. Louis

[Verse 9]
And [G]he's free to be put [D]in a cage
[Em]in Fillmore in San Francisco
[G]And he's free [D]to be put in a cage
[Em]in Roxbury in Boston
They're [G]gatherin' [D]'em
up [A]from miles [C]around
[A]Keepin' the nigger[D]s dow[G]n
[G]We're

[Verse 10]
[C]red[G]necks, we're red[C]necks
We [G]don't know our [D]ass from
a [Em]hole in [C]the ground
[G]We're [D]rednecks, we're
[G]red[D]nec[A]ks
We keepin' the nig[D]gers [E]down
We are [A]keepin' the nig[D]gers [G]down