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Electrician stares at the drought-thin, dammed-up Tallapoosa The sun sinks, we watch it drown (You got it, you got it) The cracks in his hands are still black with the dust Of the mine down in Colombia, the country not the town (You got it, we got it) It was like steppin' back in time, his voice shakes The women and children, the armed guards, the twelve-hour days (We got it, we got it) The ropes and the mules and the buckets and the shacks That little man workin' them poor folks like slaves (You got it, we got it) He ain't nothin' but a little-bitty man in some little-bitty boots He ain't nothin' but a little-bitty man in some little-bitty boots Get up (Get up), get up (Get up), get up off me Get up (Get up), get up, get up off my back Among the ruins of Old Cahawba The columns of the Yankee's plantation house loom (You got it, we got it) The generals parleyed there before the Battle of Selma Civilly warring in the parlor room (You got it, we got it) Did they speak to the Black women who fixed the bountiful supper? Did they study their curves with lizard eyes? (We got it, we got it) Could they agree on things like duty and honor And sittin' back behind the front lines while all the poor boys died? He ain't nothin' but a little-bitty man in some little-bitty boots He ain't nothin' but a little-bitty man in some little-bitty boots Get up (Get up), get up (Get up), get up off me Letras de cancionesGet up (Get up), get up, get up off my back Get up (Get up), get up (Get up), get up off me Get up (Get up), get up, get up off my back The crew's sunken quarter-tons The boss's towering crew cab, it's ironic, isn't it? These days, it's like the bigger the truck a body's got The less work they do with it (You got it, we got it) They call him a planter, but he didn't plant nothin' They call him a builder, but he doesn't build shit (We got it, we got it) Old Jeff Davis never hoed one row Old Donald Trump never laid one brick He ain't nothin' but a little-bitty man in some little-bitty boots He ain't nothin' but one little-bitty man in two little-bitty boots Get up (Get up), get up (Get up), get up off me Get up (Get up), get up, get up off my back Get up (Get up), get up, get up, get up off me Get up (Get up), get up, get up off my back Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up off me Get up, get up, get up, get up off my back Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up off me Get up, get up, get up, get up off my back From Letras Mania