Said the scalawag to the carpetbagger
Let's hatch a plot so 'cloak and dagger
A few monkey trials in a kangaroo court
Kill the hoi polloi and the real McCoys
So the twang-fakers and the fat cats
Started hobnobbin' and the Dixiecrats
The Kentucky Colonels and the Ku Klux Klan
Got knocked a new tune outta La La Land
As the swirling beam of the signal feed
Cuts the night into moonbow rings
Sad individuals keep the blue light vigil
And believe the shows are between their commercials
Don't believe the lies
Wake up and rise
Came as no surprise
To these South Electric Eyes
These South Electric Eyes
South Electric Eyes
South Electric Eyes
So the salt of the earth turns scum of the earth
With the altar-ego of the Christless church
All left to waller in the squalor of the holler
With a redneck ring around a blue-collar
So I stayed up late at the fever pitch
To see the lamps dim when they threw the switch
The rabble and cabal on both sides of town
Had a ball when they drove old Dixie down
Don't believe the lies
Wake up and rise
Came as no surprise
To these South Electric Eyes
These South Electric Eyes
South Electric Eyes
South Electric Eyes
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