Rednecks chords by
Randy Newman

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Key: E minor

Verse 1
Em Em 
 
Last night I saw Lester Maddox
on a TV show
Bm Bm 
 
Em Em 
 
With some smart ass New York Jew
Bm Bm 
 
A A 
 
And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
D D 
 
And the audience laughed at
G G 
 
Lester Maddox too

Verse 2
Em Em 
 
Well, he may be a fool but he's our fool
Bm Bm 
 
If they think they're better than him,
A A 
 
they're wrong
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
So I went to the park and I
C C 
 
A A 
 
took some pa per along
D D 
 
An d that's where I made
this song
G G 
 
D D 
 

Verse 3
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
We talk real funny down here
G G 
 
D D 
 
We drink too much and we laugh
G G 
 
D D 
 
too loud
G G 
 
D D 
 
We're too dumb to make it no
Em Em 
 
Northern town
A A 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
We keepin' the niggers down

Verse 4
G G 
 
We got no-necked oilmen
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
from Texas
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
And good ol' boys from Tennessee
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
And college men from L.S.U.
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
Went in dumb, come out dumb too

Verse 5
G G 
 
D D 
 
Hustlin' 'round Atlanta
Em Em 
 
in their alligator shoes
G G 
 
Gettin' drunk every
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
weekend at the barbecues
A A 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
We keepin' the niggers down

Verse 6
G G 
 
C C 
 
We're rednecks, we're
G G 
 
C C 
 
rednecks
G G 
 
D D 
 
We don't know our ass from
Em Em 
 
C C 
 
a hole in the ground
G G 
 
D D 
 
We're rednecks, we're
G G 
 
D D 
 
A A 
 
rednecks
D D 
 
G G 
 
We keepin' the niggers down

Interlude 1

Now your northern nigger's

Verse 7
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
a Negro
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
You see, he's got his dignity
G G 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
Down here we're too ignorant to realize
A A 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
That the North has set the nigger free

Verse 8
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
Yes, he's free to be put in a cage
Em Em 
 
in Harlem in New York City
G G 
 
D D 
 
And he's free to be put in a cage
Em Em 
 
In the South-Side of of Chicago,
G G 
 
the West-Side
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
And And he's free to be put
in a cage in Hough in Cleveland
G G 
 
D D 
 
And he's free to be put
Em Em 
 
in a cage in East St. Louis

Verse 9
G G 
 
D D 
 
And he's free to be put in a cage
Em Em 
 
in Fillmore in San Francisco
G G 
 
D D 
 
And he's free to be put in a cage
Em Em 
 
in Roxbury in Boston
G G 
 
D D 
 
They're gatherin' 'em
A A 
 
C C 
 
up from miles around
A A 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
Keepin' the niggers down
G G 
 
We're

Verse 10
C C 
 
G G 
 
C C 
 
rednecks, we're rednecks
G G 
 
D D 
 
We don't know our ass from
Em Em 
 
C C 
 
a hole in the ground
G G 
 
D D 
 
We're rednecks, we're
G G 
 
D D 
 
A A 
 
rednecks
D D 
 
E E 
 
We keepin' the niggers down
A A 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
We are keepin' the niggers down

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