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I Have To Paint My Face

I Have To Paint My Face lyrics by Sam Chatmon. Say God made us all He made some at night That's why he didn't take time To make us all white Chorus: I'm bound...

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I Have To Paint My Face

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Say God made us all

He made some at night

That's why he didn't take time

To make us all white

Chorus:

I'm bound to change my name

I have to paint my face

So I won't be kin

To that Ethiopian race

Say now let me tell you one thing

That a Stumptown nigger will do

He'll pull up on young cotton

And he'll kill baby chickens too

(Chorus)

Say when God made me

Say the moon was givin' light

I'm so doggone sorry

He didn't finish me up white

(Chorus)

Say now when God made people

He done pretty well

But when he made a jet black nigger

He made them some hell

(Chorus)

Say God took a ball of mud

When he got ready to make man

When he went to make you partner

I believe it slipped out his hand

(Chorus)

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