MEMPHIS MEMORIES (edit)

I expect I'd best explain this before ya'll start reading. I was sitting around thinking how much the Old South had changed since I was a child. This write is the result. The word "nigger" is used to emphasize the time in which this is set, not to offend anyone here. So hold your nose, here goes :

I remember clearly the Old South
Back in nineteen sixty five
when a nigger had to watch his mouth
just to stay alive

Separate but equal laws
about which old men would laugh
I never gave them thought or pause
was this the proper path?

I recall hearing "They're just like dogs
OK, if they know their place."
the ones who don't we often flog
be proud of the white race

In grade school in Tennessee
I still can hear the cheers
when told someone had shot Kennedy
that lover of niggers and queers

And when King was murdered there
it came as no surprise
I knew it would happen some where
beneath blue southern skies

The sixties now seem a dark dream
a world so very far away
removed by violence's scream
I'm glad to live this better way

I now await the storm...............stan