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John Mellencamp
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Written by John Mellencamp, Carlton Ridenhour and Kyle Jason
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Hey Poppi yea ho
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Hey Poppi yea ho
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Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
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Lay low proud Poppi
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Lay low proud Poppi (shout it out)
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He's from the deep south (shout it out)
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Pass Christian Mississippi
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Where the cane breaks are burnin' every night
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Lay low proud Poppi (shout it out)
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Chant:
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Hey o
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Hey o
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O Poppi
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Hey o
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Hey o
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Hey Poppi
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Hey o
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Hey o
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Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
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Poppi had a wife
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And she was black and Poppi was white (shout it out)
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Everything was rollin' great (shout it out)
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'Til some man called her race a disgrace
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Oh no
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Chant
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Well Poppi went down to the river
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To defend the honor of his wife
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(somebody's killin' somebody)
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Gonna drown the man in the water (shout it out)
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And the water was shiny like a new knife
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But Poppi stopped at the banks of the Delta
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He said this sure ain't worth this man's life
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Someday the wind of change
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Is gonna blow on through
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And put all of these jokers right
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C'mon and sing now
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Chant
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Chuck D Rap:
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Papa got a brand new bag
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Delta blues got 'em dazed and confused
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Came a long way crazy
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Seems the abuse
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Is racism's baby
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It's wild
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'Cause I connect the word with pain
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Now some smile when they scream the name?
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Funny how the times have changed
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And the rhymes have changed
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But some cat's frame remains the same
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Agitating adjective
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What gives? die word die
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But I wanna live
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Known' all this
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Where the word came from
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I must be 3 times stupid
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And stuck on dumb
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If I use it and confuse it
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With a term of love
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Now popular culture
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Can't stop 'til it gets enough
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Underlined in marketing campaigns
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I feel undermined
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Heard the word promotes the bottom line
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Down by the river there's a great divide
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Let's ride
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Don't call me nigga 'cause you know I don't like it like that
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Don't call me nigga 'cause you know I don't like it like that
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Don't call me nigga 'cause you know I don't like it like that
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Don't call me nigga 'cause you know I don't like it like that
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Shout it out
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Yeah Shout it out
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Tell the world
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Shout it out
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I said
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Hey o
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Hey o
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Hey o
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Hey o
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O Poppi
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Hey o
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Hey o
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Tell the world
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Yeah Yeah Yeah
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Tell the world
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That it ain't right
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Tell the world
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Don't set us back oh Poppi
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Don't set us back now Poppi
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Tell the world
John Mellencamp - Check It Out
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