Sam Chatmon - I Have to Paint My Face Lyrics

Say God made us all
He made some at night
That's why he didn't take time
To make us all white

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I'm bound to change my name
I have to paint my face
So I won't be kin
To that Ethiopian race

Say now let me tell you one thing
That a Stumptown nigger will do
He'll pull up on young cotton
And he'll kill baby chickens too
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Say when God made me
Say the moon was givin' light
I'm so doggone sorry
He didn't finish me up white
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Say now when God made people
He done pretty well
But when he made a jet black nigger
He made them some hell
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Say God took a ball of mud
When he got ready to make man
When he went to make you partner
I believe it slipped out his hand
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