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Mount Meigs
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Mount Meigs was released on March 10, 2023 by Jagjaguwar as a part of the album Oh Me Oh My
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Release DateMarch 10, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM146

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Lonnie Holley
Lonnie Holley
Vocals
Jacknife Lee
Jacknife Lee
Programming
Marlon Patton
Marlon Patton
Drums
Jordan Katz
Jordan Katz
Horn
Davide Rossi
Davide Rossi
Strings
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Lonnie Holley
Lonnie Holley
Songwriter
Jacknife Lee
Jacknife Lee
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Jacknife Lee
Jacknife Lee
Producer

Lyrics

Mount Meigs
Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children
'64, They let me go
They let me go from Mount Meigs, Alabama
In 1964
But with some cuts and bruises that I would never forget
Alabama Industrial School
The hardship that the children was going through
Children after children after children
Picking cotton
Toting those bales
Bending our backs
Going up and down the ditches and the creeks
Flat weeding
Hearing the old Farmall tractor
Chucking up the hill
Changing the gears
Singing the song
"Now the time coming and it won't be long
You gonna see old Sally with the
You gonna see old Sally
You gonna see old Sally with the red dress on"
Mr. Glover sitting on his can
With his greasy, oily, sticking fan belt in his hand
Telling you to put your dick in the hole
As he gets ready to whoop you
And beat you down on the ground
Teardrops of boys and girls
Girls and boys crying
"I wanna go home"
Old man get up and say
"You had a good home but you wouldn't stay there
You had a good home but you wouldn't stay there"
We was trying to understand the meaning of "wouldn't stay there"
I was only trying to run away to find my mother
I needed my mother, I needed the hugs, I needed it
I just needed her
I needed to know who my grandpappy was
I needed to know who my own mama was
But I didn't know
I didn't have no idea
Sometimes feeling like a fool
Thinking that I was the most stupidest child that walked there
Nobody taught us anything
Got no education, nobody let us have no wisdom
They beat the curiosity out of me
They beat it out of me
They whooped it
They knocked it
They banged it
Slammed it
Damned it
Damn the curiosity
Only going one way down the road
And making sure that you kept that road straight
Making sure that you kept that road straight
Mount Meigs, Alabama
Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children
We didn't get no scholarship
We didn't get no graduate degree
But all of that information is still within me
All of that information
At 71 years old and I still think of the day
The days and days and days and more days
On top of the days
Picture me being there
Picture me being there
In Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children
Written by: Jacknife Lee, Lonnie Holley
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