Walking
down to Birmingham,
way down south in Dixieland,
I thought that I would stop a while,
take a vacation, southern style,
got some southern hospitality,
down there in a southern
hospital.
Oh, all the signs said, welcome in
Signed by Governor Wal
lace and Rin Tin Tin
They said, come along and
watch the fights
While we feed our dogs on civil rights
Now, don't get us wrong
Some of our best Negroes
are friends
Well, I've seen travel
in many ways
I've traveled in cars and old subways
But in Birmingham some people chose to
fly down the street from a fire hole
Doing some hard traveling
from hydrants of plenty
Well a pack of dogs was standing by,
I walked up to them and I said,
Hi I asked one dog what they all were doing,
he walked up to me and started chewing
I said, hold it, I'm from the ASPCA,
Society for Prevention of
Cruelty to Agitators.
And I said, there must
be some men around,
there can't be only dogs in town.
They said, sure we have
old Bull Connor,
there he goes a -walkin' yonder.
Growin' some raw meat to the mayor,
feedin' bones to the city council.
You know Governor Wallace
doesn't mean no harm
Can't you see he's got a lot of charm
He's protectin' us whites,
both rich and poor
Standin' in the schoolhouse door
Crackin' jokes,
talkin' to Huntley Brinkley
Servin' jury duty, gettin' re -elected
So I asked them why they spent their time
with se gregation on their mind
They said, you don't like
to live this way,
get out of here
Go back to the U .S .A.
Live with all them Russian
New York folk singers
Some say they've passed
their darkest hour
Those moderates are back in power
Oh, they listen close with open ears,
they'll help us out in a
couple of hundred years
But don't push them, whatever you do,
or else you get those extremists back in
You see, Alabama is a sovereign state with
sovereign dogs and sovereign hate
They stand for the Bible,
for the Constitution,
they stand against
communist revolution
They say it's pinkos like you
that freed the slaves,
and they're right.