Sam chatmon lyrics 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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