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[stormdog]

A video on how to factory reset my Fitbit used an instrumental version of a song I couldn't quite place. I knew it was Neil Young, and I knew it was a very political song. I hummed more of it to myself for a bit and I got it; "Southern Man."

I'm really boggled when people just pick songs out of nowhere to use like that. The lyrics below don't really go with poking buttons on consumer electronics, do they?

"Southern man, better keep your head
Don't forget what your good book said
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast

Southern man

I saw cotton and I saw 'bacc
Tall white mansions and little shacks
Southern man when will you pay them back
I heard screaming and bullwhips cracking
How long? How long?"

Comments

[cmcmck]

That is one of the truly great songs- shame the manufacturers don;t have a clue.

'I saw cotton and I saw 'bacc
Tall white mansions and little shacks
Southern man, when will you pay them back?'

[stormdog]

It is a powerful song, like Strange Fruit.

And I'm glad you posted the lyric correction there; I'd just copied and pasted from a website and hadn't noticed.