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Uncle Sam rises from a grave on the hill to survey his native city of Troy. He is not amused.

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They call me Uncle Sam Wilson'
I used to live down on Ferry Street
But now I spend all of my days
in a grave on the hill
And I look down on the town of today
and it's scaring me

The white girls from Troy are birthing black boys
With names like Dashawn and Malik and Leroy

I was born in 1776
That makes me 10 years more wise
beyond the birth of a nation
And ten years more surprised
by all the miscegenation
I was born in 1776

These days the white girls from Troy
are birthing black boys
With names like Dashawn
and Malik and Leroy
Fulfilling incentive for public assistance
They wait for black daddies to get out of prison

And a baby boy's wide eyes
absorb the tv light
He's watching R-rated movies
up way past his bedtime
In the next room his grandmama's
dropping her n-bombs
Each day he grows bigger and bigger

He's getting too big for Troy.

Maybe one day still he will rest on the hill
Looking down on the town on the souls left to save
On the souls of the damned as he rots in his grave
Like his Uncle Sam

They parade through the streets
on a Sunday in September
It's all in my name but
they do not remember
That the stars and the stripes
on the flag that they wave
Mean much more than they'd like
and I turn in my grave

The white girls from Troy are birthing black boys
With names like Dashawn and Malik and Leroy

I pray these white girls from Troy
will one day give a damn
Get back to birthing white boys.
Maybe even name 'em Sam

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from 1369 Lights, released October 31, 2008
The Buggy Jive is: BT: lead vox, acoustic guitar; JENNIFER: electric guitar; CLEOPATRA JOANZ: bass; LADY MAC: snare, hi-hat, kick drum, tin can.

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Bryan Thomas Albany

Nippertown’s Greg Haymes says Albany soul rocker BRYAN THOMAS's "writes smart, and he writes from the heart, balancing intellect, passion and politics.”

The Times Union named him“Best Male Singer-Songwriter” shortly after he released his acoustic hip-hop debut Radio Plastic Jennifer in 1999. The follow-up soul rock epic Ones and Zeros was Metroland Magazine’s “Album of the Year” in 2002.
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