Hey Poppi yea ho
Hey Poppi yea ho
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
[John Mellencamp]
Lay low proud Poppi
Lay low proud Poppi (shout it out)
He`s from the deep south (shout it out)
Pass Christian Mississippi
Where the cane breaks are burnin` every night
Lay low proud Poppi (shout it out)
Chorus:
Hey o
Hey o
O Poppi
Hey o
Hey o
Hey Poppi
Hey o
Hey o
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
[John Mellencamp]
Poppi had a wife
And she was black and Poppi was white (shout it out)
Everything was rollin` great (shout it out)
`Til some man called her race a disgrace
Oh no
Chorus
[John Mellencamp]
Well Poppi went down to the river
To defend the honor of his wife
(somebody`s killin` somebody)
Gonna drown the man in the water (shout it out)
And the water was shiny like a new knife
But Poppi stopped at the banks of the Delta
He said this sure ain`t worth this man`s life
Someday the wind of change
Is gonna blow on through
And put all of these jokers right
C`mon and sing now
Chorus:
[Chuck D]
Papa got a brand new bag
Delta blues got `em dazed and confused
Came a long way crazy
Seems the abuse
Is racism`s baby
It`s wild
`Cause I connect the word with pain
Now some smile when they scream the name?
Funny how the times have changed
And the rhymes have changed
But some cat`s frame remains the same
Agitating adjective
What gives? die n word die
But I wanna live
Known` all this
Where the word came from
I must be 3 times stupid
And stuck on dumb
If I use it and confuse it
With a term of love
Now popular culture
Can`t stop `til it gets enough
Underlined in marketing campaigns
I feel undermined
Heard the n word promotes the bottom line
Down by the river there`s a great divide
Let`s ride
Don`t call me nigga `cause you know I don`t like it like that
Don`t call me nigga `cause you know I don`t like it like that
Don`t call me nigga `cause you know I don`t like it like that
Don`t call me nigga `cause you know I don`t like it like that
Shout it out
Yeah Shout it out
Tell the world
Shout it out
I said
Hey o
Hey o
Hey o
Hey o
O Poppi
Hey o
Hey o
Tell the world
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Tell the world
That it ain`t right
Tell the world
Don`t set us back oh Poppi
Don`t set us back now Poppi
Tell the world
