The Scottsboro Boys Cast - Alabama Ladies (reprise) Lyrics

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.

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