Southern man, better keep your head
Don't forget what your good book says
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burnin' fast
Southern man

I saw cotton and I saw black
Tall white mansions and little shacks
Southern man, when will you pay them back?
I heard screamin' and bullwhips crackin'
How long? How long? How?

Southern man, better keep your head
Don't forget what your good book says
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burnin' fast
Southern man

Lily Belle, your hair is golden brown
I've seen your black man comin' 'round
Swear by God I'm gonna cut him down

I heard screamin' and bullwhips crackin'
How long? How long? How?


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Southern Man Lyrics as written by Neil Young

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    "this is a great song obviously about race relations.....i think that the u.s. government has given blacks so much in the past 20 years and they still complain that "the man is holding them down" we have affirmative action in college admissions and blacks get hired before whites because of equal opportunity employment.....not to mention all of the tax money that comes from white people to help blacks and they still complain......its hard not to be racist when they have been given so much and yet almost every time a murder is committed it is a young black man murdering someone...yet still the government screws law abiding citizens over..... "

    You MUST be joking. There is no way one could be that ignorant. Dumbass. Affirmative action is a sorry ass way for the government to try and help the black community get out of the ghettos that whites created for them. You say whites spend their tax dollars trying to help blacks in need... but do you know that a VAST MAJORITY of those on welfare/food stamps/and/or living in Section 8 housing are NOT minorities? No, their Caucasion. So, here's my question. Why should I, as a black and Latina woman, be forced to support dumb white racists such as yourself?

    The government has done everything possible to distroy and keep down the black community, from introducing crack to the poor, to building ghettos, to making sure urban children stay right in the inner city where "they belong," to introducing AIDs in America. (To all of you idiots who think it started in Africa, go read a book. Aid=Having sex with green monkeys? WTF?) For hundreds of years, it was next to impossible for Blacks to be successful.

    AND FOR YOUR INFORMATION... blacks do commit crimes, as do every race. But you do know the the crime rate among whites is staggeringly higher than with blacks? Look it up. Crime stats show. Blacks killing get publized... whites often do not. SMh had that dumbass comment. People like you make me sick. S-I-C-K.

    tia_2008on April 12, 2007   Link

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