Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop (Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop) Hey! Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop (Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop) Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop Yeah, my baby knows Matilda Brown told ole' King Tut Say if you can't pay me five, just keep your big mouth shut Ye-es, your baby knows Momma's on the

'Do it slow' I don't know Alabama's gotten me so upset Tennessee made me lose my rest And everybody knows about Mississippi goddam But that's just the trouble The name of this tune is Mississippi goddam And I mean every word of it Can't you see it

So yeah we're going down Yeah we're going down Everybody knows, everybody knows where we're going Yeah, we're going down So yeah, we're going down (All the right friends, in all the right places They got all the right moves in all the right places So

(Whoa whoa whoa whoa, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) Lord knows I need something to fill this void Lotta shit happens, like, being in show business A lot of shit happens, like, like, I make a lot of money, you know And I'm really happy about it And I'm not

I'm swinging with my eyes closed Fist up in the air Oh like we don't care Only god knows how far it goes Got my hair down a wide open road Summer's here, bring it on Another year, one more beer, another song Comes on the radio, so loud and clear

I wanna get to know you-- Wanna get to know you Wanna know you all over Gotta know you with all that I got Like no one knows you Gonna reach way down deep in your mind Wanna get to know you that good I wanna know you that good Wanna get to know

'Do it slow' I don't know Alabama's gotten me so upset Tennessee made me lose my rest And everybody knows about Mississippi goddam But that's just the trouble The name of this tune is Mississippi goddam And I mean every word of it Can't you see it

We'll give you one more fight She had a face straight outta magazine God only knows but you'll never leave her Her balaclava is starting to chafe When she gets his gun he's begging, babe stay, stay, stay, stay, stay I'll give him one more time Said one

And choke on the memories Oh oh oh oh, oh Choke, choke, yeah Ha ha ha ha, ha Choke, choke Well I see breakfast on the table And I can smell you in the halls I'll keep a message of you if you call, of you if you call Lord knows I'd cry if I was able

We keep hurting each other when words can't be easily said No understanding or reason, just fear and confusion instead We need hope for the future, and the young need a chance to survive No one knows the pain that's felt by the innocent, they're Fighting