Old Jim Crow

Written and Produced by Dean Hall

Dean Hall — vocals, all guitars, bass
Shirley Settles — vocals
Chad Cromwell — drums
Noah Hungate — drums
Dennis Wage — B-3
Mark Polack — drum-track­ing engineer (Lamplight Studio)
Chris Haseleu — overdub engineer (MTSU’s Studio A)
Dean Hall — overdub and mix engineer (Mule Studio)
Andrew Mendelson — mastering engineer (Georgetown Masters)

Lyrics: Old Jim Crow

Old Jim Crow I heard your name
Down South where you been calling
I thought you had seen your better days
A simple man in Dixieland
Knows you’re not forgotten
Rosa Parks is rollin in her grave

Old Jim Crow no shame or sorrow
Old Jim Crow I’m so upset
Old Jim Crow no it ain’t over
Old Jim Crow I wish you’s dead

Old Jim Crow you’re resurrected
Rebel flags a flying
Say you gotta take your country back
You’re now disguised as Southern pride
Goddamned in Mississippi
Your colors show the truth
Behind that flag

Old Jim Crow no shame or sorrow
Old Jim Crow I’m so upset
Old Jim Crow no it ain’t over
Old Jim Crow I wish you’s dead

Old Jim Crow you’re back again
With ghosts of insurrection
Saying that you won’t forget that war
These god-and-gun money-won
Two-faced politicians
Would drag us back to 1964

Old Jim Crow no shame or sorrow
Old Jim Crow I’m so upset
Old Jim Crow no it ain’t over
Old Jim Crow I wish you’s dead

Oh Jim Crow
Oh Jim Crow
Oh Jim Crow

Way down south in the land of cotton
Old Jim Crow is not forgotten
Lookie-way there those stars and bars
You see Dixie I see scars