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Rosa Parks from Tuskegee made her mark in historyA bus ride in Montgomery began the turning of a tideShe wouldn't give her seat up to a white man in the front, you seeShe'd had enough and took a stand while sitting on a bus that dayWhile sitting on a bus that day, she must have bugged the KKK"You'd have to sit in back," they'd say, but Rosa Lee would not be swayedShe sat her ground and there she stayed until the sheriff came and said"I'll take you to your jail bed, who do you think you are?"I'm Rosa Parks, that's who I amWon't give my seat up to that manI worked all day, I'm tired andI'm Rosa Parks, that's who I amThis was back in '55, and times have changed, she's still aliveBut so are those in ignorance who'd still keep others in their placeBut that's a risky P.R. plan, the image-makers told the KlanYou'll have to clean your act up, and start moving with the timesSo very quietly one day, an application with three KsWas filed with Missouri's Department of TransportationThe Kluxes joined a civic plan, Adopt-A-Highway Program andThey'd get their name up on a sign proclaiming their damn nationBut modern folks in Missouri, 'specially at the D.O.T.Letras de cancionesDenied that application, so the K-boys had to make a planThey lawyered up and with a snort they won a judgment in the courtWho said the state could not discriminate against the KlanSo there it stands, that awful signFor one cursed mile of highway lineBut the people of Missour-i-ayThey drew their own and had their sayNow the joke is on the KKKThey're cleaning up the newly christened"Rosa Parks Freeway"I'm Rosa Parks, that's who I amWon't give my seat up to that manI worked all day, I'm tired andI'm Rosa Parks, that's who I'm Rosa Parks, that's who I am From Letras Mania