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Viewing Lyrics for T-Neg:
| | | Artist: | Sam Broussard |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | T-Neg | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 125 | | | | Lyrics: | On etait punis pour parler en francais
but we spoke French on the
playground
anyway
Roosevelt decreed
that we would all be
les Americains
One
nation in English
not in Cajun French
or Mexican
So Poppa sent me
said 'public
school, it's free
learn to read and write
'Cause T-Neg don't be
no Cajun farmer like
me
who cuss and fight
on a Saturday night'
She whipped me 'til I could pray
in
their damn anglais
and read and write
I said, 'Miz Breaux tu parles Cadjin
exactement
comme moi'
she said, 'You're right'
but I quit, I won't be no low-class
coonass
farmer's daughter serving up
the rice and gravy
And I'll be married soon as I
can
to some black-boot Houston oil man
I pray
Now get out of my way
And,
T-Neg, if that's your name
to me that's such a shame
And it ain't no uptown girl
who's
gonna marry you, T-Neg'
The coloreds and the white
tenant farming side by side
on
hands and knees
We all lived right next door
ten, twelve children maybe more
Us
Catholics breed
Until I went to school most people
that I knew were coffee-colored
brown
We'd have fell apart if we'd moved to town
in fear and hate we'd put each other
down
Better stay out of town
And T-Neg, that's my name
to me it ain't no
shame
And it ain't no uptown girl
who married ol' T-Neg
Je m'appelle T-Neg
ca
veut dire 'little friend'
Et toi, t'es mon neg'
ca veut dire 'my dear' pour toujours
ma
negress
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