hey poppi yea ho hey poppi yea ho yeah yeah yeah yeah lay low proud poppi lay low proud poppi he s from the deep south pass christian mississippi where the cane breaks are burnin every night lay low proud poppi chorus hey o hey o o poppi hey o hey o hey poppi hey o hey o yeah yeah yeah yeah poppi had a wife and she was black and poppi was white everything was rollin great til some man called her race a disgrace oh no chorus well poppi went down to the river to defend the honor of his wife gonna drown the man in the water and the water was shiny like a new knife but poppi stopped at the banks of the delta he said this sure ain t worth this man s life someday the wind of change is gonna blow on through and put all of these jokers right c mon and sing now chorus papa got a brand new bag delta blues got em dazed and confused came a long way crazy seems the abuse is racism s baby it s wild cause i connect the word with pain now some smile when they scream the name funny how the times have changed and the rhymes have changed but some cat s frame remains the same agitating adjective what gives die n word die but i wanna live known all this where the word came from i must be 3 times stupid and stuck on dumb if i use it and confuse it with a term of love now popular culture can t stop til it gets enough underlined in marketing campaigns i feel undermined heard the n word promotes the bottom line down by the river there s a great divide let s ride don t call me nigga cause you know i don t like it like that don t call me nigga cause you know i don t like it like that don t call me nigga cause you know i don t like it like that don t call me nigga cause you know i don t like it like that shout it out yeah shout it out tell the world shout it out i said hey o hey o hey o hey o o poppi hey o hey o tell the world yeah yeah yeah tell the world that it ain t right tell the world don t set us back oh poppi don t set us back now poppi tell the world