_Then go down to Jackson, Mississippi But not if your skin is brown 'Cause even though it's a pretty big city Thinks like a Southern town And if you're a so-called white agitator Then all you'll meet is hate 'Cause they think you're a nigger-lovin' Yankee invader Come to wreck their sovereign state. (Refrain)
| _Then go down to Neshoba, Mississippi Where the Klansmen rule by fear And if two dead hadn't been white in Philadelphia Then the woudl would never hear For who knows how many have died in the Delta And how many lives have been lost Only the people who live in Mississippi By the light of the flaming cross (Refrain)
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__"'Mississippi' has already gained a fair amount of fame in Boston, Philadelphia and Washington. Phil Ochs heard it when he was at Brandeis and suggested I send it to you. I am 18, went to Brandeis for a year. I've sung at hoots at Cholmondeley's, at the Gilded Cage in Philly, and on numerous demonstrations. There are no chords on the song because I do not -- as yet -- play any instrument. I make the rhythmic sound with whatever is handy, usually two sticks of some kind." - Charyn Sutton.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/06/964028/-Googling-Mommy
_A strong chord variation would be to capo the first fret and play "G/A/D/Em/G/A/F#m/Bm/Em/A/D/Em/A/D."