Didn't Know a Damn Thing

Back in Georgia

I didn't know a damn thing about Alabama

I didn't know a damn thing about South Dakota

I didn't know a damn thing about

Oh Atlanta, I didn't know a damn thing

Bodies were hanging

Bodies were burning

And my mama and daddy

They were earning

I was rocking the cradle

While in that fertile black belt

They were taking the blows

For every toll of that liberty bell

I didn't know a damn thing

I didn't know a damn thing

Rolling around

In the country squire

Westbound with no seatbelts

Just family ties

Looking up at Mount Rushmore

And the white man's great relief

Even the good guys

Would be commander in thief

Bodies were freezing

Bullets were flying

And all these years

Indians been dying

I was back in the school bus

I was reading my history

But it didn't say nothing

About what was right in front of me

I didn't know a damn thing

I didn't know a damn thing

I didn't know a damn thing

I didn't know a damn thing

I gave three days a week

To the sanctuary

I gave five days a week

To the county curriculum

And I sang my heart out

For the land of the free

Saying if anything will save this world

It's rock and roll

Hanging with the girl scouts

Around the campfire

Underneath the generals

On that rebel mountainside

Those laser light shows

Where I was buzzed and kissing

I didn't know nothing

About the black kids that were missing

Bombs were blowing

Kids were dying

And all around me

I thought I was trying

But in the back of the school bus

I was reading my history

But it didn't say nothing

About the kid sitting next to me

I didn't know a damn thing

Back in the 60s hah

I didn't know a damn thing

Back in the 70s huh

I didn't know a damn thing

Back in the 80s here we go

(I didn't know a damn thing)

I gave three days a week

To the sanctuary

(I didn't know a damn thing)

I gave five days a week

To the county curriculum

(I didn't know a damn thing)

I sang my heart out

For the land of the free

(I didn't know a damn thing)