Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show
With some smart ass New York Jew
And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too

Well, he may be a fool but he`s our fool
If they think they`re better than him, they`re wrong
So I went to the park and I took some paper along
And that`s where I made this song

We talk real funny down here
We drink too much and we laugh too loud
We`re too dumb to make it no Northern town
We keepin` the ni**ers down

We got no-necked oilmen from Texas
And good ol` boys from Tennessee
And college men from L.S.U.
Went in dumb, come out dumb too

Hustlin` `round Atlanta in their alligator shoes
Gettin` drunk every weekend at the barbecues
We keepin` the ni**ers down

We`re rednecks, we`re rednecks
We don`t know our ass from a hole in the ground
We`re rednecks, we`re rednecks
We keepin` the ni**ers down

Now your northern ni**er`s a Negro
You see, he`s got his dignity
Down here we`re too ignorant to realize
That the North has set the ni**er free

Yes, he`s free to be put in a cage in Harlem in New York City
And he`s free to be put in a cage
In the South-Side of Chicago, the West-Side
And he`s free to be put in a cage in Hough in Cleveland
And he`s free to be put in a cage in East St. Louis

And he`s free to be put in a cage in Fillmore in San Francisco
And he`s free to be put in a cage in Roxbury in Boston
They`re gatherin` `em up from miles around
Keepin` the ni**ers down

We`re rednecks, we`re rednecks
We don`t know our ass from a hole in the ground
We`re rednecks, we`re rednecks
We keepin` the ni**ers down
We are keepin` the ni**ers down