NINA SIMONE - BACKLASH BLUES

BACKLASH BLUES

NINA SIMONE

SONGWRITERS: LANGSTON HUGHES & NINA SIMONE

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

WHERE: LIVE AT MONTREUX 1976

ALBUM: SINGS THE BLUES

LABEL: RCA VICTOR

GENRE: BLUES

YEART: 1991

Sings the Blues is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. This was Simone's first album for RCA Records after previously recording for Colpix Records and Philips Records. The album was also reissued in 2006 with bonus tracks, and re-packaged in 1991 by RCA/Novus as a 17-track compilation under the title The Blues.

Mr. Backlash, Mr. Backlash

Just who do think I am

You raise my taxes, freeze my wages

And send my son to Vietnam

You give me second class houses

And second class schools

Do you think that alla colored folks

Are just second class fools

Mr. Backlash, I'm gonna leave you

With the backlash blues

When I try to find a job

To earn a little cash

All you got to offer

Is your mean old white backlash

But the world is big

Big and bright and round

And it's full of folks like me

Who are black, yellow, beige and brown

Mr. Backlash, I'm gonna leave you

With the backlash blues

Mr. Backlash, Mr. Backlash

Just what do you think I got to lose

I'm gonna leave you

With the backlash blues

You're the one will have the blues

Not me, just wait and see.