Lyrics Anthropology Days - The Dead Milkmen

In nineteen o four
St Louis Olympics
Non-whites were forced
To participate
In something called
Anthropology Days
Events included
Mud-fighting and spear-throwing
"The Costumed Members of Uncivilized Tribes" ss how these human beings were described
Men with Cambridge degrees were made to climb trees
And forced to dress in animal hides

A little lesson in history
This is a little some, just to fire you up
So the next time you meet
An idiot
You'll remember to tell them to SHUT THE FUCK UP!
In nineteen sixteen
In Tennessee
An elephant was hanged for the murder of its trainer
Who just happened to be
A drunken hobo
First they tried to shoot it
Then electrocute it

In a Summer's night
In nineteen eighty two
In Detroit
Vincent Chin was murdered-
Beaten to death with a baseball bat
The man who killed him got three years' probation
They used to raid
Gay bars and then print
The names of everyone arrested in the newspaper
People lost their jobs
And families
Oh in 1930
Pat Robertson was born

A little lesson in history
This is a little some, just to fire you up
So the next time you meet
An idiot
You'll remember to tell them to shut the fuck up
In nineteen sixteen
In Tennessee
An elephant was hanged for the murder of its trainer
Who just happened to be
A drunken hobo
First they tried to shoot it
Then electrocute it

Aw one Mississippi
Two Mississippi
Three Mississippi aw the whole fuckin' state
One Mississippi
Two Mississippi
Three Mississippi aw fuck that place