SOUTHERN MAN
NEIL YOUNG
SONGWRITER: NEIL YOUNG
WHERE: CARNEGIE HALL – 2014
COUNTRY: CANADA
ALBUM: AFTER THE GOLD RUSH
LABEL: REPRISE
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1970

"Southern Man" is a song by Neil Young from his album After the Gold Rush. The album was released in 1970. An extended live version can be heard on the Crosby Stills Nash & Young album 4 Way Street.
The lyrics of "Southern Man" are vivid, describing the racism towards blacks in the American South. In the song, Young tells the story of a white man (symbolically the entire white South) and how he mistreated his slaves. Young pleadingly asks when the South will make amends for the fortunes built through slavery when he sings:
"I saw cotton and I saw black,
"tall white mansions and little shacks.
"Southern Man, when will you pay them back?"
The song also mentions the practice of cross burning referencing the Ku Klux Klan.
Young was very sensitive about the song's message as anti-racism and anti-violence. During his 1973 tour, he canceled a show in Oakland, California because a fan was beaten and removed from the stage by a guard while the song was played. 
Southern man better keep your head
Don't forget what your good book said
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern man

I saw cotton and I saw black
Tall white mansions and little shacks.
Southern man when will you pay them back?
I heard screamin' and bullwhips cracking
How long? How long?

Southern man better keep your head
Don't forget what your good book said
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern man

Lily Belle, your hair is golden brown
I've seen your black man comin' round
Swear by God I'm gonna cut him down!
I heard screamin' and bullwhips cracking
How long? How long?
DARLIN’

BEACH BOYS
SONGWRITERS: BRIAN WILSON & MIKE LOVE
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: WILD HONEY
LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS
GENRE: ROCK AND ROLL
YEAR: 1967

Wild Honey is the 13th studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released December 18, 1967 on Capitol Records. It was the group's first foray into soul music and was heavily influenced by the R&B of Motown and Stax Records (artists such as Stevie Wonder). Lead single and opening track, "Wild Honey", became a minor hit with only a short chart stay. Its follow-up "Darlin'" reached the US Top 20. The album itself reached number 24 in the US and number seven in the UK.
The album's sessions began immediately after the abandonment of Lei'd in Hawaii, a failed live album, and the release of Smiley Smile, their previous studio album. Like Smiley Smile, Wild Honey's core instrumental combo consists of organ, honky-tonk piano, and electric bass. The Beach Boys were inspired to regroup as a self-contained rock band, partly in response to critical assertions that they were "ball-less choir boys". The production was once again credited to the group rather than Brian Wilson alone, who gradually abdicated the band's musical leadership following the difficult sessions for the aborted Smile LP. At Brian's request, his younger brother Carl began contributing more to the recording process, a trend that continued on subsequent albums.
Ohh! darlin'
My darlin' you're so fine
Ohhhh!-hhh!-hhh!

Don't know if words can say
But darlin' I'll find a way
To let you know what you meant to me
Guess it was meant to be
I hold you in my heart
As life's most precious part

Oh! darlin'
I dream about you often my pretty girl babe
(Darlin' you're so fine)
I love the way you soften my life with your love
Your precious love uh! huh!, oh!

I was living like half a man
Then I couldn't love but now I can
You pick me up when I'm feeling sad
More soul than I ever had
Gonna love you every single night
Cause I think you're too outta sight

Oh! oh! darlin'
I dream you often my pretty girl babe
(Darlin' you're so fine)
I love the way soften my life with your love
Your precious love uh! huh! huh!

Woah oh! oh! oh!

Every night oh darlin'
Gonna love you every single night, yes I will
Cause I think you're too doggone outta sight

Oh! darlin'
I dream about you often my pretty girl babe
(Darlin' you're so fine)
I love the way soften my life with your love
Your precious love uh! huh! huh!
Oh!
LIME STREET BLUES
PROCOL HARUM
SONGWRITERS: GARY BROOKER & KEITH REID
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: PROCOL HARUM
LABEL: DERAM RECORDS
GENRE: ROCK PROGRESSIVE
YEAR: 1967

Procol Harum is the debut studio album by English rock band Procol Harum. It was released in September 1967 by record label Deram in the US, following their breakthrough and immensely popular single "A Whiter Shade of Pale". The track doesn't appear on the UK version of the album, but was included on the US issue. The UK version of the album was released in December 1967 by record label Regal Zonophone.
Procol Harum was released in September 1967 in the US, and three months later in the UK. Though the album was recorded on multitrack, it was issued as mono-only in the UK, and in mono and rechannelled stereo in the US. Despite extensive searching, the original multitrack tapes have not been located and thus a stereo mix of the original ten tracks may never be possible. Several alternate takes, however, have been mixed into stereo and are available on CD. As recently as 2004, the original single, mixed to stereo, has appeared on a "Dick Bartley Presents: Classic Oldies" compilation on Eric Records.
Lime Street in the afternoon
everybody crazy as a coon
I'm running round in my underpants
trying to find some kinda romance

Quarter past three [sic] on Lime Street
I got whipped right offa my feet
Didn't realize that I'd been caught
till I found myself in the County Court

'Mr Judge,' I said, 'Won't you please be kind
Have pity on me, a poor orphan child?'
Mr Judge he says with a long mean frown
'Orphan or not, you're going down!'

Well I screamed on my knees in the witness box,
'Lord have mercy on my golden locks.'
The judge I could see that he was snide
He says, 'The only kind of blonde you are's a peroxide!'

Oh Lime Street, Lime Street
Lime Street, that's where we meet.
THE SKY IS CRYING
GARY B. B. COLEMAN
SNGWRITER: ELMORE JAMES
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: TOO MUCH WEEKEND
LABEL: ICHIBAN RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES
YEAR: 1992

"The Sky Is Crying" is a song that has become a blues standard. It was written and recorded by Elmore James in 1959. Called "one of his most durable compositions", "The Sky Is Crying" became a R&B record chart hit and has been interpreted and recorded by numerous artists.
Gary B.B. Coleman(January 1, 1947 – February 14, 1994) was an American soul blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer.
Originally a local musician turned blues promoter and session musician, Coleman recorded his debut album in 1986, which was re-released by Ichiban Records. He issued several other albums and produced most of Ichiban's blues catalogue until his death, in 1994. On many occasions, Coleman undertook multi-instrumentalist duties in the recording studio. He acknowledged both B.B. King, with his "B.B." moniker, and a fellow Texan, Freddie King.
The sky is crying
Can't you see the tears roll down the street
The sky is crying
Can't you see the tears roll down the street
I've been looking for my baby
And I wonder where can she be

I saw my baby early one morning
She was walking on down the street
I saw my baby early one morning
She was walking on down the street
You know it hurt me so bad
It made my poor heart skip a beat

I've got a bad feeling
My baby don't love me no more
I've got a real bad feeling
My baby don't love me no more
The sky is crying, ya
Can't you see the tears roll down the road.