John Mellencamp – Cuttin' Heads Lyrics  Share

From John Mellencamp's album: Cuttin' Heads

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)

[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]

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
[ Cuttin' Heads lyrics from
http://www.musiclyricsnow.net/j/john-mellencamp/cuttin-heads/ ]
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
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