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Go Down South

from Road Songs by Nick Swan

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We got good BBQ and good cornbread
Got moonshine goes straight to your head
The biggest watermelons you ever seen
And we put hot sauce on everything
Good on chicken, good on greens
Good on biscuits, and good on beans
Tastes like heaven and burns like hell
Makes you wanna run right back to the well
Chicken in the breadpan pickin out dough
Granny does your dog bite - "No, child, no"
Live like a sinner, talk like a saint
Never gonna be nothin that we ain't

So come on now!
Come on now!
Come on now!
You gotta go down South

We got guns and bibles, rich and poor
Politicians tryin to fix the score
The elephants and the horse's asses
All get together to screw the masses
Hooked on pills, hooked on meth
Hooked on religion, and hooked on death
May be right, may be wrong
But we're all still singin the same old song
"Well I wish I was in the land of Cotton"
Music there won't be forgotten
Rock and roll, rhthym and blues
Let's all get together and sing a tune

So come on now!
Come on now!
Come on now!
You gotta go down South

Solo

We got black and white, we can't go back
To the days when your skin color held ya back
Men in bondage, women in chains
Back of the bus and the KKK
Til one day one man had a dream
A man by the name of Martin Luther King
He said we can all do better than this
But they shot him down in Memphis...
You can kill a man, but not a dream
And times ain't like they used to be
Free at last, free at last
Let's put that bullshit in the past

So come on now!
Come on now!
Come on now!
You gotta go down South
Oh won't you play some funky dixieland
Pretty mama come take me by the hand
By the hand now, take me by the hand, pretty mama
Dance with your daddy all night long

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from Road Songs, released July 2, 2021

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Nick Swan Knoxville, Tennessee

Tennessee Troubadour. Playing a mix of America's best roots music, from blues & folk to classic rock & 90s grunge.

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