Statehouse

Took down that Confederate flag

Down off the statehouse

Finally something aint that bad (South Carolina)

Down at the statehouse

c flag that flew for a failed insurrection

Down at the statehouse

But in 2015 they made the correction

Down at the statehouse

They said they put it up first as a dedication

Down at the statehouse

For a hundred years since the Confederation

Down at the statehouse

But why not a hundred year celebration

Down at the statehouse

For the Emancipation Proclamation?

Down at the statehouse

I'm asking...

What can we do? What can we do?

What can we do? What can we do?

What can we do? What can we do?

See, I used to think it was just history

cnd history's ok by me

But then I learned the whole story

cnd now see things clearly.

The flag went up in 1961

cfter a Supreme Court decision

Ending segregation

cnd beginning integration

Civil Rights in '61 was

Freedom Riders on the bus

cnd the Ku Klux Klan come to beat them down

While the local cops all turned around

They don't fly swastikas in Germany

No shrines to Mussolini in Italy

So why it's ok to see

That Confederate flag in front of me?

It must have been a shame to see...

Down at the statehouse

If your Grandfather was born in slavery

Down at the statehouse

Now, one family's history

May be dying for the Confederacy

But another family's history

Was being born in slavery

But they finally took that old flag down

Down at the statehouse

Too long, too long it was hanging around

Down at the statehouse

cnd I don't wanna see it hanging ‘round

Down at the statehouse

They finally took that old flag down!

Down at the statehouse

Don't wanna see it hangin' ‘round...

Or on your t-shirt walkin' ‘round

Or on your pickup drivin' ‘round

Don't wanna see that old flag around

Not in your house

Not in my house

Not in an insurrection in the White House...

What can we do? What can we do?

What can we do? What can we do?

We're gonna take that old flag down