Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Hair
Canonical path: /hair/colored-spade
Related lyric paths: 6
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Colored Spade
Read Colored Spade lyrics by Hair on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Colored Spade
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I'm a
Colored spade
A nigger
A black nigger
A jungle bunny
Jigaboo coon
Pickaninny mau mau
Uncle Tom
Aunt Jemima
Little Black Sambo
Cotton pickin'
Swamp guinea
Junk man
Shoeshine boy
Elevator operator
Table cleaner at Horn & Hardart
Slave voodoo
Zombie
Ubangi lipped
Flat nose
Tap dancin'
Resident of Harlem
And president of
The United States of Love
President of
The United States of Love
(and if you ask him to dinner you're going to feed him:)
Watermelon
Hominy grits
An' shortnin' bread
Alligator ribs
Some pig tails
Some black eyed peas
Some chili
Some collard greens
And if you don't watch out
This boogie man will get you
Booooooooo!
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Hair performs "Colored Spade", and this lyric page sits inside the Hair catalog on LyroVerse.
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