Down Here In The South (©2011 T. Land & T. Ellis)
She worked for years in a field of weeds
They said mam your job is make em all green
Don’t worry honey,we’ll ship you up north
With your mamma and your baby, just stay on course
When you got nothing
A dollars worth a lot
When you got nothing
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
Down here in the South
Her husbands doing time for just speaking out his mind
He believed in liberty, said it’d turn out all fine
He taught her how to read and pledge allegiance to the flag
Now for a buck, she’d give you the one in her bag
When you got nothing
A dollars worth a lot
When you got nothing
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
Down here in the South
Two cops coming down hard on top of tenth
Find an old worn out woman on the brink of death
Strangled with an old flag on the last bus stop
All dirty and crumbled and tied in a knot
When you got nothing
A dollars worth a lot
When you got nothing
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
Down here in the South
Down here in the South
Down here in the South
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