Setting: The Deep south, during the early civil rights era, in a small, white trash town....It begins with an African American crossing the Alabama border


I just made the long drive from Chicago that night
Crossed the Alabama border with sleep trying to fight
I pulled into a hotel and asked for a room
The lady said "No places for people like you!"
I was truly disgusted at the injustice that I was dealt
But I went into a gas station with the anger that I felt
The white girl at the counter looked like my girl back home
I said "Hey Baby, need a fill up on the car with the chrome."
She looked at me as though I was a ghost
and said "Your black ass is fucking toast!"
I was truly startled at what I had just heard,
So I ran back to my car, without saying a word
And before I could get a mile away from this god-forsaken place
The cops were already giving me a chase
They pulled me over and asked, if I had called his girl baby
I looked at him, tryed to remain calm, and then stuttered "M-m-maybe"
He said, "Get out of that car right now you fucking negro."
I turned around started to run and shouted "HELL NO!"
They caught me and beat me until I was bleeding all around
Drove up with the cops car, put me in the trunk, and drove me into town
I thought I'd be goin' to jail, so that I could plead my case
But it wouldn't happen, injustice was the only thing that I could taste
They took me to the middle of the town square to the largest tree there was
Took out a rope and said "You'll pay for your mistake in blood."
I couldn't believe what was happening, it was so fast, I was head over heels
And that's how they hung me on their tree, so injustice could be revealed.
Now are you shocked of what you heard, was it too gruesome, too gory
Or are you shocked because it's based upon a true story!
The white people in that Alabaman town, with the devil, they made a deal
And that is what leaves me right now, head over heels....

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