Randy Newman - Rednecks

Randy Newman & Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra,
cond. Roelof van Driesten.
Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1979

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[64wally64]

You sir are an idiot. You are missing the point of the song, he is saying that the north is now treating Black people worse then southern people do. In the north they are thrown into slums and that is the end of it. It is ignorant assholes like you that miss interpret what he is saying. Also he is from the south.

[MrLozengerZ]

I bet you don't know your ass from a hole in the ground. :)

[ScrubTutor]

He's not saying it's worse, he's not saying it's better. He's attacking the hypocritical northern "liberals" who think they're so much better than southerners because they are "integrated", while in reality they are just as bad as. Instead of lynching, it's random traffic stops and police beatings.

Which is not to say the South is really great, he just thinks that it's a nation-wide problem, and not a regional one.

[Brad Roush]

He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of fame. Class of 2013'

[Panglos]

Enjoy your sweat and skeeters, genius.

[Jake Liberty Prime Jarvis]

You are an idiot, plain and simple.

[Panglos]

There's no doubt that the South is a better place for blacks than is the North. The problem is that the South is bad for America. Even as it treats people—black or white—better, it does so with a covert agenda that's taking us all down.

[rumple49]

As far as "The ol South Risin again".? Ha..

After Shootin Yo OWN 3 Best Generals.{Like Bobby Lee}..coz Y'all were too Chit Faced on Boot Shine..to remember 'Your Own Password'..... Like;

Southern Foreplay...

"GIT in the Truck Bitch"..OR SOOO Daisey Mae..Afta da Hoe-Down be DUN HON,?

....."Y'ontoo?"

[rumple49]

I've always Loved Randys' Lyrical Cracker Common sense for Eons now..

I'm a former Arctic Yankee by Birth..and for almost 50 yrs.

Now A Slightly Refined Redneck Cracker by Choice..

BTW..I have no Intention of Starting "Another UN-Civil War".jus coz I was TOO Fuckin Lazy ta Pick me own Cotton..

[Grelllini]

Just in the unlikely case nobody answered this in 3 weeks and in the even more unlikely case you're not trolling, "Rednecks" is a SECOND DEGREE song, it's meant to be understood as a satire for said redneck's/northern people middle aged, unbelievably stupid racism when the song was written. Just in case you were actually believing it was to be taken seriously.

[timnray99]

anyone who thinks the North is not a pig pen of racism missed the hatred shown the black hockey player.....Boston is a racist cesspool