| Run, Charlie, run
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| Look, the niggers are coming
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| Uh, the niggers is coming?!
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| Run, Charlie, run
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| Look, the niggers are coming
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| The niggers is coming?!
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| I watch you go to church on Sunday
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| But you forget all you learned on Monday
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| Well, you see your smiling face can’t hide
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| Well well well, how you hate your brother inside
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| So I’ma telling you
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| Run, Charlie, run
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| Look! |
| The niggers is coming!
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| (The niggers is coming?!)
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| Run, Charlie, run
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| Look! |
| The niggers are coming!
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| The niggers is coming?!
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| But the greatest wrong you know you’ve done
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| Is to pass this sickness onto your son
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| Your one and only boy
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| He came into this world with a mind so clean
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| You took it, molded it, and made it mean
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| So I’ma telling you
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| Run, Charlie, run
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| Look! |
| The niggers are coming!
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| The niggers is coming?!
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| (Don't stop, don’t stop now)
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| Run, Charlie, run
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| Look! |
| The niggers are coming!
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| The niggers is coming?!
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| You built this great big beautiful city
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| But you ran away and left it to die — oh, what a pity
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| You could have made friends with your neighbors, yeah
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| But you are much too prejudiced to try; |
| tell me why
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| Run, Charlie, run
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| Look! |
| The niggers are coming!
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| The niggers is coming?!
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| Run, Charlie, run
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| Look! |
| The niggers are coming!
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| The niggers is coming?!
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| Oh, don’t try to leave what’s part of you
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| 'Cause it can’t be done, yes, that is true
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| So God bless the hand that’s calling you back, brother, well well
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| Whether it’s gonna be red or black, oh
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| Run, Charlie, run
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| Look! |
| The niggers is coming!
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| The niggers is coming?!
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| Run, Charlie, run
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| Look! |
| The niggers are coming!
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| The niggers is coming?!
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| Run, Charlie, run
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| Well, now, you better keep on running, Charlie
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| Run, Charlie, run
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| Run on, run on now
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| Run, Charlie, run
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| Well well, you better keep on running, well
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| Run, Charlie, run
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| Run run run run, try again, y’all
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| Run, Charlie, run
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| Hey hey hey, you better keep on running
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| Run, Charlie, run |