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nancy dupree - the swinging foot lyrics

[spoken word]
now this+this+this+this+this+this is a quickie
i’m gonna run this by you real fast
it’s called the swinging foot
anyhow, slave descendants can be roughly divided into two groups
those who believe the propaganda, and those who don’t
now if you don’t know about the propaganda
i’m afraid you’re not ready for this poem
so why don’t you slide on out, and come back when you got some knowledge under your belt
anyway, like i said, slave descendants can be roughly divided into two groups
those who believe the propaganda, and those who don’t
now among the believers, you got them that make no bones about what they be
they believe, and that’s that
and what they say to flossie and willie and bertha
is the same thing they say to mass smiley, chief k!llings, and congressman slewford
to them, the propaganda is gospel truth
and even if you don’t agree with them, you gotta give them credit for being honest
other believers be sly with their stuff
the propaganda is gospel truth to them too
but they say one thing to flossie and them
and something completely different to congressman sluefoot
man, when they with flossie and willie and bertha
they talks that talk, they walks the floor
they grits they t++th
they pound the pool table into sawdust
but oh, you oughta be a fly on the wall
when they talking to the mayor
willie said, “psst, psst, psst, psst, psst, psst, psst, psst, psst”
and then the boss said, “psst, psst, psst, psst, psst, psst, psst, psst”
and what they plan on doing is, “psst, psst, psst, psst, psst, psst, psst, psst”
boss, you know you can depend on me to stop them
just like always
always
always
and they put their hand inside their zipper
and they grins from where they sit to where they sit
all right
all right
all right
and then you got believers, poor things, who don’t even know they believe
they be spilling their guts to the wrong people at the right time
voting for the wrong candidate for the right reasons
and they spend up all their little money buying the wrong thing
just kinda fumbling around and messing up all over the place
poor things, they don’t mean no harm
they just don’t know
which makes them dangerous
because they get used by them that do
now that’s one side
let’s move to the other side
them folks on the other side be very suspicious
you know that saying
believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see
now that’s what they live by
tv, schools, leaders
they take all that with a box of salt
and they don’t spill their guts
and they don’t grin, unless they gaming
and before they suck in whatever happens to be the latest
they check out where it came from, and who gets the profits
and y’all, believers despise them
believers watch them
believers eavesdrop on them
and when they get their lives together
believers gang up on them
believers strain so hard to destroy them
they get hemorrhoids
and i don’t know why it’s like that
are they protecting something?
what they got to protect?
that little bit they do got
can be sn+tched over c+cktails
and if what you got can be sn+tched that easy
it ain’t yours
so they be going through all them changes
buying all that preparation h
protecting what really belongs to somebody else
and y’all, when that somebody else turns around
draw back that leg
and swing that foot dead up the middle of them hemorrhoids
child, they swing so hard
they foot be hanging out his mouth
and the only thing the poor believer
the only thing the poor believer can say is, please
they good at begging, you know
and sometimes, the pain is so bad
it makes them wake up
and when they wake up
they stop believing
and when they stop believing
they start being real
and if enough of them start being real
i ain’t worried about the believers myself
because i know
that just as long as my people stay black
that foot is gonna swing
and it’s the swinging foot
that’s gonna bring us together
all right
all right

- nancy dupree lyrics

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