Mississippi Goddamn (4:58)

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Albums featuring this track (14)

Track	Duration	Listeners
Nina Simone - Old Jim Crow	2:19	6,894
Nina Simone - If You Pray Right (Heaven Belongs To You)	2:54	1,827
Anita O'Day - Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby	4:23	5,411
Cassandra Wilson - Justice	5:25	7,369
Louis Armstrong - Learnin' the Blues	7:13	2,284
Anita O'Day - If The Moon Turns Green	2:54	4,514

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AndoDoug

Hound dogs on my trail / I've even stopped believin' in prayer / Picket lines, school boycotts / They say it's all a communist plot / Everybody knows about Mississippi, Goddamn! ... Nina on the song's origins: "At first I gathered some materials to make a gun. I was going to take one of them out, and I didn't care who it was. Then my husband said, 'Nina, you can't kill anyone. You are a musician. Do what you do.'" (Gathering materials to make a gun? Note that Simone suffered from bipolar disorder all her adult life and that she once made headlines for shooting and wounding a neighbor with a BB gun when his laughter disturbed her concentration. She also fired a gun at a record company executive who she accused of stealing royalties.)

6 Jan 2011 Reply
2Serenity

Love it, Nina!

17 Jun 2010 Reply
HowAboutBeth

ahmayzin

14 Apr 2010 Reply
luke_suspicious

Hahahaha, everybody knows about Mississippi. Goddamn, Nina!

11 Aug 2009 Reply
spunchdrummer

what a song! goddamn if it isn't fitting now.

16 Jan 2009 Reply
womanonfire

bet you thought she was kiddin' didn't you.

2 Dec 2008 Reply
womanonfire

oh!

2 Dec 2008 Reply