Come on, Mississippi
Mississippi, don't you reckon it's time
That the flag came down, cause the world turned round
And we can't move ahead if we're lookin' behind
Wanna know if you're with me, cause I come from a long long line
Of a rebel strain but the wind has changed
Mississippi, don't you reckon it's time
Look away, Mississippi
Mississippi, you're on my mind
All the crosses burned and the lessons unlearned
Left a scar across my heart and it's ten miles wide
Sick of sloggin' through the history of this wounded land of mine
Still payin' the cost cause the war was lost
Mississippi, don't you reckon it's time
I wish I was in a land that never held a soul in bondage ever
Wouldn't have to drag these chains behind
Mississippi, it's time
What the hell, Mississippi
Mississippi, you're out of your mind
Mississippi goddamned, even Alabam'
South Carolina came across the line
Dixieland will never miss me but I whistle that tune sometimes
And I'll sing it loud when the flag comes down
Mississippi, don't you reckon it's time
Look away
Look away
Look away Dixieland
Mississippi, don't you reckon it's time
That the flag came down, cause the world turned round
And we can't move ahead if we're lookin' behind
Wanna know if you're with me, cause I come from a long long line
Of a rebel strain but the wind has changed
Mississippi, don't you reckon it's time
Look away, Mississippi
Mississippi, you're on my mind
All the crosses burned and the lessons unlearned
Left a scar across my heart and it's ten miles wide
Sick of sloggin' through the history of this wounded land of mine
Still payin' the cost cause the war was lost
Mississippi, don't you reckon it's time
I wish I was in a land that never held a soul in bondage ever
Wouldn't have to drag these chains behind
Mississippi, it's time
What the hell, Mississippi
Mississippi, you're out of your mind
Mississippi goddamned, even Alabam'
South Carolina came across the line
Dixieland will never miss me but I whistle that tune sometimes
And I'll sing it loud when the flag comes down
Mississippi, don't you reckon it's time
Look away
Look away
Look away Dixieland
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"I grew up in the South and lived there until I was 50," Earle says in a statement, "and I know that I'm not the only Southerner who never believed for one second that the Confederate battle flag is symbolic of anything but racism in anything like a modern context. [This song] is about giving those southerners a voice."
Steve Earle