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From: HENSCHJ5753@uni.edu
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 16:47:54 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Randy Newman-Rednecks

This was requested from an individual so I though i would also post it to
nevada.  This is basically a piano song (most Newman songs are), but I think
the chords are pretty close.  I apologize for any mistakes, but this is my
first posting of music.  I hope to do many more.

Jeff H.

Rednecks--Randy Newman
From--Good 'Ole Boys

Intro:
             Em7        G(add A)/B      Em7
Last night I saw Lester Maddox  on  a   TV show
          Em7         G(add A)/B    Em7
with some smart-ass   New   York    Jew.
        Em7            G(add A)/B      A7/C#And (042020@1)the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
        C/D (x5555x@1)               Gsus4/D       Gand (320003@1)the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too.
         Em7      G(add A)/B     Em7
Well, he may be a fool, but he's our fool.
        Em7                       G(add A)/B     A7/C#If (042020@1)they think they're better than him, they're   wrong.
     Em7         Em7/D (020030@1)              C (x32010@1)          A7/C#So (042020@1)I went to the park and I took some paper along
    C/D (x5555x@1)          Gsus4/D      Gand (320003@1)that's where I made this song.

Verse 1:
G (320003@1)          D7 (xx0212@1)       G (320003@1)     D7We (xx0212@1)talk real funny down here.
G (320003@1)          D7 (xx0212@1)        G (320003@1)       D7We (xx0212@1)drink too much and we laugh too loud.
      G (320003@1)         D/F# (200232@1)        Em7
We're too dumb to make it in no Northern town,
          A7 (x02020@1)        C/D (x5555x@1)   G (320003@1)     D7and (xx0212@1)we're keepin' the niggers down.
       G (320003@1)       D7 (xx0212@1)        G (320003@1)      D7We (xx0212@1)got no-necked oilmen from Texas,
G (320003@1)      D7 (xx0212@1)            G (320003@1)    D7good (xx0212@1)ol' boys from Tennessee,
G (320003@1)        D/F# (200232@1)   Em7
   college men from L.S.U.
G (320003@1)        D/F# (200232@1)     Em7
   Went in dumb, come out dumb too.
G (320003@1)               D/F# (200232@1)         Em7
Hustlin' 'round Atlanta in their alligator shoes.
        G (320003@1)         D/F# (200232@1)         Em7
Gettin' drunk ev'ry weekend at the barbuques,
            A7 (x02020@1)        C/D (x5555x@1)   Gand (320003@1)they're keepin' the niggers down.

CHORUS:
      G (320003@1)C (x32010@1)          G (320003@1)CWe're (x32010@1)Rednecks, we're Rednecks,
       G (320003@1)            D7 (xx0212@1)       Em7         C7and (x32310@1)we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.
      G (320003@1)D7 (xx0212@1)         G (320003@1)D7We're (xx0212@1)Rednecks, we're Rednecks,
              A7 (x02020@1)        C/D (x5555x@1)   Gand (320003@1)we're are keeping the niggers down.


(last time only--slowly)
E7 (020130@1)         A7 (x02020@1)        C/D (x5555x@1)   G (320003@1)     We are keepin' the niggers down.

Verse 2:

Now your Northern nigger's a Negro
You see he's got his dignity
Down here we're too ignorant to realize
That the North has set the nigger free.
Yes, he's free to be put in a cage in Harlem in New York City
And he's free to be put in a cage on the South side of Chicago and
                                        the West side
And he's free to be put in a cage in Hough in Cleveland
And he's free to be put in a cage in East St. Louis
And he's free to be put in a cage in Fillmore in San Francisco
And he's free to be put in a cage in Roxbury in Boston.
They're gatherin' 'em up from miles around,
Keepin' the niggers down.

(CHORUS)