Pierce Pettis
Alabama 1959
Chicken wire floats in the big paradeMarching bands and the prom queen's waveFrom an old home movie fading with timeAlabama 1959Daddy had hair, mom was thinLook at the silly clothes they wore back thenStudebaker truck parked in the driveAlabama 1959Men wore hats and called you sonChildren said "Yes sir, yes mam" ladies called you "hun"And the days just blew away like dandelionsIn Alabama 1959TVA strung power linesLit up our world with Pepsodent and Lucky StrikesAnd the TVs rolled in black and whiteAlabama 1959Football games beneath the lightsNo one ever dared to cross the color lineBlack faces watched through the fence outsideAlabama 1959Don't use that word my mother saidLetras de cancionesIt isn't Christian, call them colored folks insteadSo I learned to be politeIn Alabama 1959These old home movies, well they make me cryStill I bring them out and watch sometimesAnd all those ghosts come back aliveAlabama 1959
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