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Rednecks (song)
"Rednecks" is a satirical song by Randy Newman, the lead-off track on his 1974 album Good Old Boys.
Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV Show
With some smart-ass New York Jew
And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too.
-"Rednecks" lyrics, Randy Newman
"Rednecks" is sung from the perspective of a Southern "redneck". In it, he expresses his dismay at the way that the North looks down upon The South. In particular, the narrator describes his ire at watching a "smart-ass, New York Jew" mock Lester Maddox on a television program. This is an allusion to Maddox's 1970 appearance on The Dick Cavett Show, whose host is actually a gentile from Nebraska. In response to his frustration at the television show, the narrator goes on to list, sarcastically, a litany of negative qualities that Southerners are reputed to have. He focuses especially on institutional racism, or, as the narrator puts it: "keepin' the niggers down."
As the song ends, the narrator criticizes northerners as hypocrites. He achieves this by singing that the "North has set the nigger free", and then claims African Americans are only "free to be put in a cage," before listing a number of black ghettos in northern cities (e.g. Roxbury in Boston, East St. Louis and Harlem in New York City) The verse's final lyric is: "They [the Northerners] gatherin' 'em up, from miles around/Keepin' the niggers down."
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Rednecks (song)
"Rednecks" is a satirical song by Randy Newman, the lead-off track on his 1974 album Good Old Boys.
Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV Show
With some smart-ass New York Jew
And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too.
-"Rednecks" lyrics, Randy Newman
"Rednecks" is sung from the perspective of a Southern "redneck". In it, he expresses his dismay at the way that the North looks down upon The South. In particular, the narrator describes his ire at watching a "smart-ass, New York Jew" mock Lester Maddox on a television program. This is an allusion to Maddox's 1970 appearance on The Dick Cavett Show, whose host is actually a gentile from Nebraska. In response to his frustration at the television show, the narrator goes on to list, sarcastically, a litany of negative qualities that Southerners are reputed to have. He focuses especially on institutional racism, or, as the narrator puts it: "keepin' the niggers down."
As the song ends, the narrator criticizes northerners as hypocrites. He achieves this by singing that the "North has set the nigger free", and then claims African Americans are only "free to be put in a cage," before listing a number of black ghettos in northern cities (e.g. Roxbury in Boston, East St. Louis and Harlem in New York City) The verse's final lyric is: "They [the Northerners] gatherin' 'em up, from miles around/Keepin' the niggers down."