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Nina Simone – Mississippi Goddam
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This song was first performed and recorded at Carnegie Hall in 1964, a turbulent year in the Civil Rights struggle.
The prominent repetition of the phrase “do it slow” in the
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Nina Simone – Mississippi Goddam (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Alabama's gotten me so upset / Tennessee made me lose my rest / And everybody knows about Mississippi goddam / Alabama's got me so upset / And Watts has made me lose my
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Nina Simone – Mississippi Goddam (Live At Carnegie Hall, New York, 1964)
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Andra Day – Mississippi Goddam
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Alabama's gotten me so upset / Tennessee made me lose my rest / Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam / Alabama's gotten me so upset / Tennessee made me lose my rest / Everybody
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Jukesbox
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It is I, the mere Jukesbox, lover of music, hater of greasy fingers(Yes you, get away from my records).
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O'hene Savant – Nina Simone by O (Bio)
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Verse 1: / Eunice Waymon, February 21, 1935 was her date of birth / North Carolina was the state / She was the sixth of the seven kids that her poor parents raised / Was a child
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Brother Ali – Uncle Sam Goddamn
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One of the Minnesota emcee’s most popular tracks, this is a scathing political debasement of all that corporate America stands for. The song hit hard enough within the industry to
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Vivafidel & Gat Turner (Ft. Gat Turner & Viva Fidel) – KGD (KILLwaukee God Damn!)
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Nearly 50 years after the late Great Nina Simone chided America with her heralded hit record “Mississippi Goddam.” Milwaukee raptivists Gat Turner and Viva Fidel, have echoed her
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Malcolm & Martin – Thank God
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[ Styliztik Jones ] / Thank God for Miles Davis, thank God for Sammy D / Thank God for Rosa Parks, thank God for Josephine / Thank God for Nat Turner, thank God for Billy Dee
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JAY-Z’s ‘The Blueprint’ Will Be Archived In The Library Of Congress
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It’s joined by Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” & Curtis Mayfield’s ‘Super Fly.’
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Common (Ft. Lalah Hathaway) – We Are Young, Gifted & Black
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[Chorus: Lalah Hathaway] / Young, gifted and black / To be young, gifted and black / Young, gifted and black / To be young, gifted and black / [Verse 1: Common] / To be young
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Nina Simone – The Glory of Love
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[Verse 1] / You've got to give a little, take a little / And let your poor heart break a little / That's the story of, that's the glory of love / You've got to laugh a little, cry
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Nina Simone – Mr. Smith
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Don't you realize, Mr. Smith? / Don't you realize what thirty dollars buy today? / Just some stockings, and that's it / I came from Havanah / My mother was wild as you are / She
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Nina Simone – Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter
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[Verse 1] / You're nothing but a dirty, dirty old man / You do your thinking with a one track mind / Keep talkin' about heaven glory but / On your face is a different story / Clean
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Nina Simone – Be My Husband (Live)
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[Intro] / Two, three, go / Two, three, go, uh / A better flow, huh? / Oh yeah yeah / [Refrain] / Be my husband, man, I'll be your wife / Be my husband, man, I'll be your wife / Be
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Nina Simone – For a While
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[Verse 1] / Lost from day to day / Turned another way / With a laugh, a kind hello / Some small talk with those I know / [Chorus] / I forget I'm not over you for a while / I forget
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Nina Simone – Old Jim Crow
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Old Jim Crow / Where you been, baby / Down Mississippi and back again / Old Jim Crow, don't you know / It's all over now / Old Jim Crow / What's wrong with you / It ain't your name
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Nina Simone – If You Knew
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[Verse 1] / If you knew how I missed you / You would not stay away today / Don't you know how I need you / Stay here my dear with me / [Verse 2] / I need you here my darling
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The Last Poets – Bird's Word
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Everything was silent / And then Ma Rainey spread Black News / By way of the Backwater Blues / As Bessie Smith picked up on it / And spread the word, thru music and song / Then the
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Nina Simone – God, God, God
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From the depths of slumber / As I ascend the spiral stairways of wakefulness / I will whisper: / God! God! God! / Thou art the food, and when I break my fast / Of nightly
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