Lyrics The Backlash Blues (Remastered).lrc Nina Simone
[id: wmfnitnh]
[ar: Nina Simone]
[al: ‘Nuff Said]
[ti: The Backlash Blues (Remastered)]
[length: 02:48]
[00:04.64]Yeah, yeah
[00:07.68]So, Mr. Backlash, Backlash
[00:12.11]Who do you think I am?
[00:14.96]You raise my taxes, freeze my wages
[00:17.75]Send my son to Vietnam
[00:20.76]You give me second class houses
[00:23.52]And second class schools
[00:26.55]Do you think that all colored people
[00:28.43]Are just second class fools?
[00:31.72]Mr. Backlash
[00:36.14]I’m gon’ leave you with the blues, yes I am
[00:43.70]When I try to find a job
[00:47.40]To earn a little cash
[00:50.41]All you got to offer
[00:51.82]Is your mean, old white backlash
[00:55.03]But the world is big
[00:57.99]Big and bright and round
[01:01.28]And it’s full of other folks like me
[01:03.77]Who are black, yellow, beige and brown
[01:07.06]Mr. Backlash
[01:10.50]I’m gon’ leave you with the blues, yes I am
[01:14.27]
[01:48.93]When Langston Hughes died
[01:52.44]When he died, he told me many months before
[01:54.86]He said, “Nina, keep on working
[01:58.79]’Til they open up the door
[02:01.58]One of these days when you made it
[02:04.40]And the doors are open wide
[02:06.39]Make sure you tell them exactly where it’s at
[02:08.96]So they’ll have no place to hide”
[02:11.54]So Mr. Backlash
[02:14.59]Mr. Backlash
[02:16.89]Hear me now
[02:19.24]I’m warning you, yeah
[02:21.80]Somehow, someway, yeah
[02:25.76]I’m gonna leave you
[02:27.89]With the blues
[02:32.07]Year of Release: 1968