Tanya Tucker - I Believe The South Is Gonna Rise Again lyrics

Album: Best Of Tanya Tucker (1992)

Mama never had a flower garden
´Cause cotton grew right up to our front door
Daddy never went on a vacation
He died a tired old man at fourty four

Our neighbors in the big house called us redneck
´Cause we lived in a poor share-croppers shack
The Jacksons down the road were poor like we were
But our skin was white & theirs was black

But I believe the south is going to rise again
But not the way we thought it´d back then
I mean everybody hand in hand
I believe the south is going to rise again

I see wooded parks & big skyscrapers
Where dirty rundown shacks stood once before
I see sons & daughters of share-croppers
But they are not picking cotton anymore

But more important I see human kindness
As we forget the bad & keep the good
A brand new breeze is blowing ´cross the southland
And I see a brand new kind of brotherhood

Yes I believe the south is going to rise again
Oh, but not the way we thought it´d back then
I mean everybody hand in hand
I believe the south is going to rise again
I believe the south is going to rise again
I believe the south is going to rise again

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