I Believe The South Is Gonna Rise Again Lyrics - Tanya Tucker

Mama never had a flower garden 

'Cause cotton grew right up to our front door 

Daddy never went on a vacation 

He died a tired old man at fourty four 

Our neighbors in the big house called us redneck 

'Cause we lived in a poor share-croppers shack 

The Jacksons down the road were poor like we were 

But our skin was white and theirs was black 

But I believe the south is gonna rise again 

But not the way we thought it would back then 

I mean everybody hand in hand 

I believe the south is gonna rise again 

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I see wooded parks and big skyscrapers 

Where dirty rundown shacks stood once before 

I see sons and daughters of share-croppers 

But they're not picking cotton anymore 

But more important I see human kindness 

As we forget the bad and keep the good 

A brand new breeze is blowing 'cross the southland 

And I see a brand new kind of brotherhood 

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Yes I believe the south is gonna rise again 

Oh, but not the way we thought it would back then 

I mean everybody hand in hand 

I believe the south is gonna rise again 

I believe the south is gonna rise again 

I believe the south is gonna rise again