Colored Town
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Just across the railroad track
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On the far side of the tow
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All the people there are blac
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And they live in colored tow
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Colored tow
Speeding cars down the highway ru
They never stop to look aroun
One place that the highway shun
And that place is colored tow
Colored tow
On the sidewalk children pla
In the gutters watch them clow
White world is so far awa
So far away from colored tow
Colored tow
The owners of the local store
Owners of the local groun
They're walking on a finer floo
Skin's too white for colored tow
Colored tow
In the early of the da
For the white homes they are boun
As a janitor, as a mai
They leave their place in colored tow
Colored tow
Come the evening, come the win
Come the dancing music soun
Liquor knows no color lin
Not even down in colored tow
Colored tow
A prison with no prison guard
Where no padlocks can be foun
A jail without cells and bar
But you'll never escape from colored tow
Colored tow
Come let's open all the door
From Birmingham to Harlem's groun
from Jackson to Chicago's shore
Let's take a look at colored tow
Colored tow
Come take a look at colored tow
Colored town
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