Mississippi from the Inside Out
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Who Are We?
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to
be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
-- John Adams
Copyright 2000-2009. Bay Israel Chitrikar Keller Iglesias . All rights reserved.
Singing and Swinging
In the last year
I been told I’s proud
“She won’t speak up“ and
She's much too loud
“Your problem is you’re too meek and mild”
and wild
Think I’m ready for showbiz
Got my family to thank
When the man told me my music stank
Said way too fat
And much too old
I said
“Buddy, I done been told”
But you know what?
We’re still singing and swinging
Picking and grinning
We’ll be swinging if this goes twelve innings
We’ll be doing
What we’ve always done
You guessed it
Having fun
If you want to be happy
Then find you a man
Who don’t talk much
and works with his hands
Don’t hurt a bit if he’s big and strong
When you find him,
Sing along
Guy told me
If I married him
He knew just
Where I’d end
Sitting on the back porch
rocking
Watching soybeans grow
You know something better
Let me know
Why do they want to say things like that?
Hurt your feelings and stab your back?
Cause they’ve got nothing else to do
But you
They got no biz
Can’t make hush and you can’t make them stop
Don’t want to stop
Til they stop your clock
One true thing my mama told me
Idle hands
Are the devil’s workshop
(Chorus)
But you know what?
We’re still singing and swinging
Picking and grinning
We’ll be swinging if this goes twelve innings
We’ll be doing
What we’ve always done
You guessed it
Having fun
Well, the guy who told me I didn’t belong
I’m still here and he’s long gone
And the boy who told me he’d never
Met a mama no meaner
You know where he is?
Working in a dry cleaners
And the guy who told me I better beware
You know that thing about the rocking chair?
You know where he is?
I don’t either
No one I know knows or cares
But you know what?
We’re still singing and swinging
Picking and grinning
We’ll be swinging if this goes twelve innings
We’ll be doing
What we’ve always done
You guessed it
Having fun
And rocking
