Chords for Here's to the State of Mississippi

[F#] _ _ [D#m] _ _ [F] _ [C#] _ _ _
_ Here's [D#m] to the [C#] state of Mississippi _ _
[F#] For underneath her [E] borders
The devil draws no line
[F#] If you drag her muddy rivers
[E] Nameless bodies you will find
_ [F#] Oh the fat trees of the forest
[E] Have hid a thousand crimes
_ [D#m] The calendar's lying
When [G#m] it [D#m] reads the [C#] present time
Oh [F#] here's [D#m] to the land
You've torn [F#] out the heart of
Mississippi [D#m] find yourself
[C#] Another country [F#] to be part of _ _ _ _
And [C#] [D#] here's to the people [C#] of Mississippi _ _
Who [F#] say the folks up north
[E] They just don't understand
[F#] And they tremble in the shadows
[E] At the thunder of the Klan
[F#] Oh the sweating of their souls
Can [E] wash the blood from off their hands
[F#] For they smile and [D#m] shrug their shoulders
[G#m] At the [C#] murder of a man
[F#] Oh here's to the land
You've torn out the heart of
Mississippi [D#m] find yourself
[C#] Another country [F#] to be part of
_ _ _ _ [C#] And [D#m] here's to the schools [C#] of Mississippi
_ Where [F#] they're teaching all the children
[E] That they don't have to care
[F#] All the rudiments of hatred
Are [E] present everywhere
[F#]
And every single classroom
Is a [E] factory of despair _
[D#m] And there's nobody learning
[G#m] Such a foreign [C#] word as fair
[F#] Oh here's to the land
You've torn out the heart of
Mississippi [D#m]
find [C#] yourself
Another country [F#] to be part of
_ And [C#] [D#m] here's to the cops [C#] of Mississippi
_ _ They're [F#] chewing their tobacco
[G#m] As [E] they lock the prison door
[F#] And their bellies bounce inside them
[E] When they knock you to the floor
[G#m] [F#] No they don't like taking prisoners
[E] In their private little war
_ [F#] And [D#m] behind their broken badges
[G#m] There are [C#] murderers and more
[D#m] Oh here's to the land
You've torn [F#] out the heart of
Mississippi [D#m] find yourself
[C#] Another country [F#] to be part of _ _ _ _
And [C#] [D#m] here's to the judges [C#] of Mississippi _
Who [F#] wear the robe of honor
[E] As they crawl into the court
[F#] And they're guarding all the bastions
[E] Of their phony legal fort
[F#] Oh justice is a stranger
[E] When the prisoners report
[F#] When the black [D#m] man stands accused
The [G#m] trial [C#] is always short
[F#] Oh here's to the land
You've torn out the heart of
Mississippi [D#m]
find yourself
[C#] Another country [F#] to be part of _
_ _ _ And [C#] [D#m] here's to the government [C#] of Mississippi
_ _ In [F#] the swamp of their bureaucracy
[E] They're always bogging down
[F#] And criminals are posing
[E] As the mayors of the towns
[F#] And they hope that no one [D#] sees the [E] sights
And no one hears the sounds
[F#] And the [D#m] speeches of the governor
Are [G#m] the [C#] ratings of a clown
Oh [F#] here's to [D#m] the land
You've [F#] torn out the heart of
Mississippi [D#m] find yourself
[C#] Another country [F#] to be part of _ _ _
_ And [C#] [D#m] here's to the laws [C#] of Mississippi
_ _ _ _ _ [D#m] _ [F#] Congressmen will gather
In [E] a circus of delay
[F#] While the constitution's drowning
In [E] an ocean of decay
[D#m] [F#] Unwed mothers should be [E] sterilized
I've even heard them say
[D#m]
[F#] Yes [D#m] corruption can be classic
[G#m] In the [C#] Mississippi way
[D#m] Oh here's to the land
You've torn [F#] out the heart of
Mississippi [D#m] find yourself
[C#] Another country [F#] to be part of _ _
_ _ [C#] And [D#m] here's to the churches [C#] of Mississippi
_ Where [F#] the cross once made of [F#m] silver
[E] Now is caked with rust
[F#] And the Sunday morning [E] sermons
Pander to their lust
[F#] Oh the fallen face of Jesus
[E] Is choking in the dust
[D#m] And heaven only [G#] knows
In which [F#] God [C#] they can trust
Oh [D#m] here's to the land
You've torn [F#] out the heart of
Mississippi [D#m] find yourself
[C#] Another country [F#] to be part of _ _ _ _
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