Southern fried chicken a dollar twenty-nine
Little Sally’s birthday taking all the family
Get the biggest booth the round one in the corner
Milk for little Sally fried chicken all around.
Sorry this table’s taken. A table in the back room
Keep the anger hidden walk out and drive away.
Southern fried chicken loses all its flavor.
Pay the check and leave no tip
Embarcadero Bayshore overpass and crosswalk
See the colored people walk across the road
Going from the little houses into Palo Alto to work.
Can’t get insurance for a house across the highway
Place is full of negroes not worth a nickel
Extra Extra Read all about it
Two car collision both the drivers died
Porter for the railroad, clerk in downtown shoe store
Both cars demolished
The blood was all the same.
Ring around the rosy
Pocket full of Posies
Ashes Ashes we all fall down
Last one down is a ——-.
Sorry sorry Very Very sorry
But you can see my problem
Why me I ask. Why me
“My mother’s name was Jordan
My father’s name was Christian
My race? I’m an American”
No that is not what they mean–
Just check the space for colored
“My grandma’s hair was yellow”
You know that doesn’t count
Your rest room is downstairs.
Dirty segregation. We never have that
Problem above the Mason Dixon
No none are here about
They don’t live in our neighborhood
Houses too expensive. Realtors
Keep the prices up Keep the——-out.
Of course I wouldn’t mind it
Knew a southern lady once
Had the nicest little girl
To take care of her children.
I walk down the sidewalk to the campus library
There comes a colored student
I’m glad he goes to school
Mustn’t offend turn away my glances
Pretend I see a friend somewhere in the distance
Wouldn’t want to stare
Can’t meet his eyes straight forward.