Under the soft snow of Alabama

They let him hang from a tree

To tell them “no one messes with Mary Lee”

 

In a classroom 50 miles south they picked on María Guadalupe.

And made her lick pee

 

At a special school they broke off for tea, went back to their dormitories

And saw Steve Jane and others too burnt to see

 

In the Island of the dead

They made America cremate again

 

In the White House he sat petulant and cold

Letting loose

Women to be slapped

Blacks to be murdered

The poor to die in the street

 

But in the soul of the dead

America was great again