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Song Of The South

La canción Song of the South es una canción country estadounidense escrita por Bob McDill. Lanzada originalmente en 1980 por Bobby Bare y luego por Alabama en 1988, la canción habla de las dificultades enfrentadas por los sureños durante y después de la Gran Depresión en los Estados Unidos, tocando temas como la pobreza, las luchas por la tierra y la esperanza de mejores tiempos. La referencia al expresidente Roosevelt apunta a las políticas del ... New Deal destinadas a ayudar a los estadounidenses durante este tiempo. La canción ocasionalmente genera controversia por su referencia nostálgica al sur antiguo, pero también se ve como un retrato de resiliencia y esperanza. Ver más [+]

Song, song of the South,
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Gone, gone with the wind,
Ain't nobody lookin' back again.

Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch,
we all picked cotton but we never got rich.
Daddy was a veteran, a southern democrat,
they oughta get a rich man to vote like that (singin')

Song, song of the South,
Sweet potato pie and shut my mouth.
Gone, gone with the wind,
Ain't nobody lookin' back again.

Well, somebody told us that Wall Street fell,
but we were so poor that we couldn't tell.
Cotton was short and the weeds were tall,
but Mr. Roosevelt was gonna save us all.

Well, momma got sick and daddy got down,
the county got the farm and we moved to town.
Papa got a job with the TVA,
he bought a washing machine and then a Chevrolet.

Song, song of the South,
Sweet potato pie and shut my mouth.
Gone, gone with the wind,
Ain't nobody lookin' back again.