Cuttin' Heads Lyrics - John Mellencamp

Written by John Mellencamp, Carlton Ridenhour and Kyle Jason 

Hey Poppi yea ho 

Hey Poppi yea ho 

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah 

Lay low proud Poppi 

Lay low proud Poppi (shout it out) 

He's from the deep south (shout it out) 

Pass Christian Mississippi 

Where the cane breaks are burnin' every night 

Lay low proud Poppi (shout it out) 

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Chant: 

Hey o 

Hey o 

O Poppi 

Hey o 

Hey o 

Hey Poppi 

Hey o 

Hey o 

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah 

Poppi had a wife 

And she was black and Poppi was white (shout it out) 

Everything was rollin' great (shout it out) 

'Til some man called her race a disgrace 

Oh no 

Chant 

Photos 

Well Poppi went down to the river 

To defend the honor of his wife 

(somebody's killin' somebody) 

Gonna drown the man in the water (shout it out) 

And the water was shiny like a new knife 

But Poppi stopped at the banks of the Delta 

He said this sure ain't worth this man's life 

Someday the wind of change 

Is gonna blow on through 

And put all of these jokers right 

C'mon and sing now 

Chant 

Chuck D Rap: 

Papa got a brand new bag 

Delta blues got 'em dazed and confused 

Came a long way crazy 

Seems the abuse 

Is racism's baby 

It's wild 

'Cause I connect the word with pain 

Now some smile when they scream the name? 

Funny how the times have changed 

And the rhymes have changed 

But some cat's frame remains the same 

Agitating adjective 

What gives? die n word die 

But I wanna live 

Known' all this 

Where the word came from 

I must be 3 times stupid 

And stuck on dumb 

If I use it and confuse it 

With a term of love 

Now popular culture 

Can't stop 'til it gets enough 

Underlined in marketing campaigns 

I feel undermined 

Heard the n word promotes the bottom line 

Down by the river there's a great divide 

Let's ride 

Don't call me nigga 'cause you know I don't like it like that 

Don't call me nigga 'cause you know I don't like it like that 

Don't call me nigga 'cause you know I don't like it like that 

Don't call me nigga 'cause you know I don't like it like that 

Shout it out 

Yeah Shout it out 

Tell the world 

Shout it out 

I said 

Hey o 

Hey o 

Hey o 

Hey o 

O Poppi 

Hey o 

Hey o 

Tell the world 

Yeah Yeah Yeah 

Tell the world 

That it ain't right 

Tell the world 

Don't set us back oh Poppi 

Don't set us back now Poppi 

Tell the world