Mississippi Goddam Chords & Tabs

by Nina Simone

[Version Description]
Chords recognition has been fixed.

[Spoken Introduction]
G6                                         
The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddam
And I mean every word of it
[Verse 1] x2
G6                          
Alabama's gotten me so upset
                  Am7     D7  
Tennessee made me lose my rest
   Am/C Bdim7 Am/C   D    C/E  D/F#   G  G  Am7 D7
And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
G11             
Can't you see it
G                
Can't you feel it
     Cmaj7         
It's all in the air
A7                                    D7
I can't stand the pressure much longer
Somebody say a prayer

[Chorus]
G6                          
Alabama's gotten me so upset
                  Am7     D7  
Tennessee made me lose my rest
    Am/C Bdim7 Am/C  D    C/E  D/F#   G     F#m7 B7
And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
Em                                                                 
(This is a show tune, but the show hasn't been written for it, yet)

[Verse 2]
Em                    
Hound dogs on my trail
F#m7b5
School children sitting in jail
          B7           
Black cat cross my path
  Em7                     B7    Em  
I think every day's gonna be my last
Em                                  
Lord have mercy on this land of mine
We all gonna get it in due time
F#m7b5
I don't belong here
  B7                
I don't belong there
     Em7              B7       Em    
I've even stopped believing in prayer
Em                          
Don't tell me, I'll tell you
F#m7b5
Me and my people just about due
                B7       
I've been there so I know
     Em7           B7   Em    
They keep on saying "Go slow!"

[Refrain]
Em                         
But that's just the trouble
"too slow"
Em                 
Washing the windows
"too slow"
Am7               
Picking the cotton
"too slow"
       Em               
You're just plain rotten
"too slow"
      F#/C#         
You're too damn lazy
"too slow"
    Am/C          B7
The thinking's crazy
"too slow"
C/E        F9   
Where am I going
Em7       A7   
What am I doing
Eb7     Eb7 
I don't know
D11     D7  
I don't know
G6                           
Just try to do your very best
                          Am7      D7 
Stand up, be counted with all the rest
      Am/C Bdim7 Am/C  D     C/E  D/F#  G  G  F#m7 B7
Cause everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
Em                                           
(I bet you thought I was kidding, didn't you)

[Verse 3]
Em                           
Picket lines, school boycotts
They try to say it's a communist plot
F#m7            B7    
All I want is equality
       Em7               B7           Em7   
For my sister, my brother, my people, and me
Em                                 
Yes, you lied to me all these years
You told me to wash and clean my ears
    F#m7           B7              
And talk real fine just like a lady
Em7                   B7         Em7  
And you'd stop calling me Sister Sadie
Em                                       
Oh but this whole country is full of lies
You're all gonna die and die like flies
F#m7              B7      
I don't trust you any more
    Em7           B7   Em7   
You keep on saying "Go slow!"
"Go slow!"

[Refrain]
Em                         
But that's just the trouble
"too slow"
Desegregation
"too slow"
  Am7             
Mass participation
"too slow"
  Em7        
Reunification
"too slow"
F#/C#              
Do things gradually
"too slow"
    Am/C           B7 
But bring more tragedy
"too slow"
C/E           F9#11
Why don't you see it
Em7       A7         
Why don't you feel it
Eb7     Eb7 
I don't know
D11     D7  
I don't know

[Chorus]
G6                               
You don't have to live next to me
                Am7   B7
Just give me my equality
      Am/C Bdim7 A/C   D    C/E  D/F#  
Cause everybody knows about Mississippi
Am/C Bdim7 A/C   D    C/E  D/F#
Everybody knows about Alabama
Am/C Bdim7 A/C   D    C/E  D/F#   G G F9F9 G F9 G F9 G
Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam

[Spoken Outro]
That's it!