WENDY SADDINGTON - Mr Backlash (live) (2012)
Wendy Saddington - "Mr Backlash" (live) (2012)
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00:00Yes, it's old Mr. Backlash. Backlash. Who do you think I am?
00:24You freeze my wages, raise my taxes, send my son to Vietnam.
00:32Give me second-class houses, second-class schools.
00:37Do you think all colored people are just second-class fools?
00:42Mr. Backlash, I'm gonna leave you with the blues.
00:50When I go out to find a job, earn a little cash,
00:58all you got to offer is a mean old white backlash.
01:03But the world is big, big and bright and brown,
01:09full of other folk who are black, yellow, beige and brown.
01:14Mr. Backlash, I'm gonna leave you with the blues.
01:45When Langston Hughes died, when he died, he told me many months before,
02:03Nina, keep on working till they open up the door.
02:09One of these days when you've made it and the doors are open wide,
02:15make sure you tell them exactly where to tap, they won't have no place to hide.
02:20Mr. Backlash, Mr. Backlash, hear me now.
02:28I'm warning you, somewhere, somehow, yeah.
02:34I'm gonna leave you with the blues.