Lyrics

Swimming upstream in a southern city The biggest fish need the biggest pond Ladies get invited to the good ole boys' party If its low cut, D-cup, platinum blonde I don't sing much about boats I never even owned a truck neither I know tail lights, state lines, loading out late nights Cruisin' the country with the 18 wheelers Sometimes I wish I was a boy So I could be the All-American they wanted Cause I can write, I can play, I can sing I'm a girl sleepwalking in a white man's dream I'm a girl sleepwalking in a white man's dream Whoo woo! Raise your glass to the mighty Mississippi And God bless a southern man How quickly you forget my great great great grandmother She died picking cotton Stolen people slaving on stolen land Sometimes I wish I was a boy So I could check off all the boxes like they wanted Not a master or a slave guess I'm something between I'm a girl sleepwalking in a white man's dream I'm a girl sleepwalking it's a white man's dream Whoo woo! Rainbow babes, you can change your names If the pronouns don't fit right Jesus saves, he said love the little children Nah you don't have to fit in Cause they're all ones and zeros And In you is a hero But I'm still trying to let it go Sometimes I wish I was a boy So I could be Mr right, right out of central casting Am I pretty am I handsome maybe something in between I'm a girl sleepwalking in a white man's dream Check one box won't you choose one race I'm a mixed girl rockin' on a white man's stage You could be queer trans straight whatever maybe in between I'm a girl sleepwalking in a white man's dream I'm a girl sleepwalking it's a white man's dream Whoo woo! Change is a shifty thing Songbirds you gotta sing (tweet tweet tweet tweet) Someday she's gonna rise and she's gonna shine Cause It was only a dream
Writer(s): Ani Di Franco, Kristen Obermann Ford Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
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