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You’ve been walking down that dusty road, for what seems like a country mile Kicking the can with nary a smile Headed for the schoolhouse, you and your companion A bus rolls by ... there’s a lot of dark faces peering out the window You curse them all, as you throw a rock that has them ducking Your companion smiles at you, and says that was a good thing to do Hate is your best friend, you love listening to her dark whisperings As you keep walking, you keep kicking the can Kicking that can on down the road The cost of equality you refuse to pay, is gonna fall to your children one day But you don’t care about none of that, you’re gonna keep walking down that same road that your daddy and mama did You believe fervently in the righteous Antebellum way, that’s how you had been bootstrapped raised With all your heart you believe in the Just Cause, you’re the latest proud son of the Confederacy As you keep walking with your hateful companion, thinking about all the evil the civil rights movement has done It makes you so mad, as you keep kicking the can Kicking that can on down the road You purpose in your heart, that’ll be the day you ever give up the Just Cause ... the honorable white way You swear in your heart, you gon teach your children to love the Confederate gray And you just keep kicking that can Kicking it further down the road Listening always to what your closest friend hate say, whispering seductively to you: Love the White and the Gray The price of equality you ain’t never gon pay, but the cost is surely gonna fall to your children one day
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