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I think I'll go to Memphis 'cause it's 1957 We'll ride the Jim Crow stagecoach...because we're young and prideful Well why not? It's 1957! we'll all grab bricks we'll all grab clubs we'll all grab firehoses And if our conscience bothers us on a later date, we can just tell ourselves that our enemies were not our fellow countrymen with empty pockets and different skin, we can tell ourselves that they weren't Christians. They were Saracens. dirty Saracens marching not towards freedom, but towards our holy land, a seat next to a white woman. And bygumandbygod, we will hold our temple sacred, we will hold this sacred dirt. Because it is the way the lord would handle it.

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Date: 10/3/2009 10:46:00 PM
title says it all!... jim
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