Colored Spade

Company
Hair
Soundtrack
2003
Lyrics: I'm a
Colored spade
A niggra
A black nigger
A jungle bunny
Jigaboo coon
Pickaninny mau mau

Uncle Tom
Aunt Jemima
Little Black Sambo

Cotton pickin'
Swamp guinea
Junk man
Shoeshine boy

Elevator operator
Table cleaner at Horn & Hardart
Slave voodoo
Zombie
Ubangi lipped

Flat nose
Tap dancin'
Resident of Harlem

And president of
The United States of Love
President of
The United States of Love

(and if you ask him to dinner you're going to feed him:)

Watermelon
Hominy grits
An' shortnin' bread
Alligator ribs
Some pig tails
Some black eyed peas
Some chitlins
Some collard greens

And if you don't watch out
This boogie man will get you
Booooooooo!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Hair
• Broadway
• Musical
• Colored
• Spade
• lyrics

[jthegeek]

I Find It Sad That An Entire Generation And Those That Follow Them Won't Even Understand What this Song Meant.. It Will Be Taken Literally And Not In The Context For Which It Was Written.. The Importance Of This Musical Is Lost To Those Who Refuse To Notice That History in All Forms Is Being Erased And Replased With Sound Bites And The Next "HOT" Trend.. "What A Piece Of Work Is Man" .........Hmmmm? I Agree..

[limeginger]

what a song - damn.

I believe the 2nd line is:

a niggra

If you listen to his pronunciation closely you can hear it. That word was the term of choice for many people in the South, even as late as the 1960s, for Black people. They thought it was the polite alternative for the other n-word.

[MsJollycholly]

I remember playing this album in my bedroom in 1969 and trying NOT to let my dad hear these lyrics or he would have gone apes-t!!! Today, almost every song is full of profanity whereas THIS song was trying to convey a message, as the whole HAIR play tried to do.

[DobermansRock]

Damn and 40 years later we still have ignorance from black people. Fucking racists.

[casestudyification]

@jthegeek I've Been Trying To Figure Out The Point Of This Song Since I Was Twelve. I'm Forty Six Now. Maybe You Could Clue Me In.

[owlie1961]

Terrible song .

[purplegriffin]

i did this song in kareoke and the looks on peoples faces was priceless. giant black guy busting out a song from his childhood people need to relax a little.

[shortypingi]

I love this song, but I'm always scared to sing it out load because if someone doesn't know Hair.. they'll think I'm racist...And I'm not!!! Lol

[soapytiger]

It's the last line that sums it up. 

[blackheartedwolf1]

Thank u for uploading the original- I love the end- and President of the United States of Love. I love how this movie is about love and equality.

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

I would love to play thus loud in Harlem..........in fact I think I may