Randy Newman – Rednecks (Ukulele)
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From: [email protected]
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 the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox C/D Gsus4/D G and 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 they think they're better than him, they're wrong. Em7 Em7/D C A7/C# So I went to the park and I took some paper along C/D Gsus4/D G and that's where I made this song.
Verse 1:
G D7 G D7 We talk real funny down here. G D7 G D7 We drink too much and we laugh too loud. G D/F# Em7 We're too dumb to make it in no Northern town, A7 C/D G D7 and we're keepin' the niggers down. G D7 G D7 We got no-necked oilmen from Texas, G D7 G D7 good ol' boys from Tennessee, G D/F# Em7 college men from L.S.U. G D/F# Em7 Went in dumb, come out dumb too. G D/F# Em7 Hustlin' 'round Atlanta in their alligator shoes. G D/F# Em7 Gettin' drunk ev'ry weekend at the barbuques, A7 C/D G and they're keepin' the niggers down.
CHORUS:
G C G C We're Rednecks, we're Rednecks, G D7 Em7 C7 and we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground. G D7 G D7 We're Rednecks, we're Rednecks, A7 C/D G and we're are keeping the niggers down.
(last time only--slowly)
E7 A7 C/D G 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)