Jim Crow's Dance

Lyrics for Jim Crow's Dance

The vestige of the back codes are so clear But only to an audience that understands The minstrel dance of Jim Crow A dance that emanated from the "slave code" The soul of our ancestors lived within And exposed the rhythms of Jim Crow We recognise the dance when the dance is a little er, off beat When the style makes no sense But to a group of people that benefit from buffoonery America was never off They claim my syncopation is the cause of our imprisonment Our welfare, our sullen countenance Everything that is wrong with America They argue that we should look at the stats To better understand our circumstances But statistics are records And you can't really listen to records that are cracked Because the music skips But go ahead, keep dancing But understand that broken records Will never illustrate the insurmountable handicaps That hinder people of colour Abraham Lincoln did not care about black people