Scottsboro Boys, The movie - Alabama Ladies (reprise) lyrics

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VICTORIA PRICE (CHARLIE)

You wanna know why you ain’t dead. I’ll tell you why you ain’t dead. Every time a jury says “guilty” the Commies and the

jungle Jews get themselves another trial. And that means every time they haul your black asses back into that courtroom, I

gotta haul mine in there too. And I’m getting sick of it. Enough! I am a white lady and I deserve to be treated as such!

THERE’S ONLY ONE TRUE ALABAMA LADY

LOYAL DAUGHTER OF THE SOLID SOUTH …

Not like that Ruby! Oh no! That turncoat. She’s making money touring the country with the Communists and those goddamn

mammies wearing hats! Going places I never heard of. And me? Six years! Six years I’m stuck in this hellhole of a town

delivering the same testimony trial after trial after trial after trial …

BUT THEN A NEGRO THREW HIMSELF UPON ME

I CAN STILL SMELL HIS HOT BLACK BREATH …

But the Commies and the jungle Jews are chasing bigger stories now, aren’t they. Let me let you in on a little lesson I

learned behind the mill when I was thirteen. They love you when you got something to give but once they finish getting

whatever it is you’re giving they’re gone and you’re forgotten …

THEY REALLY HURT YOU

THEY TAKE YOUR VIRTUE

AND WHEN IT’S TAKEN

… they win. You lose. So long, suckers.

[Thanks to Garrett for lyrics]