Galt MacDermot
Colored Spade
[HUD]
I'm a colored spade, a nigra, a black n***a
A jungle bunny, jigaboo, coon, pickaninny, mau mau
Uncle Tom, Aunt Jemima, Little Black Sambo
Cotton pickin', swamp guinea, junk man, shoeshine boy
Elevator operator, table cleaners at Horn and Hardart
Slave, voodoo zombie, Ubangi-lipped
Flat-nosed tap dancer, resident of Harlem
And president of
The United States of Love
Said president of
The United States of Love
[HUD, spoken]
Shit
[BERGER, spoken]
If you ask him to dinner, you're gonna feed him
[HUD]
Watermelon, hominy grits, and shortnin' bread
Alligator ribs, some pig tails
[TRIBE]
So you say
[HUD]
Some black eyed peas
[TRIBE]
So you say
[HUD]
Some chitlins
[TRIBE]
So you say
[HUD]
Some collard greens
[TRIBE]
So you say
[HUD]
And if you don't watch out
This boogie man will get you
Boo
Yeah, boo
[HUD, spoken]
So you say