The Pickaninnys Paradise by Emmett Miller Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Now, what's the matter honey there's a tear in your eye?
Do white folks say they don't know where you go when you die?
Come to your mammy dear, and listen here
I'll tell you where those colored chillun' go when they leave here
Now, there's a happy land above the sky so blue
And listen what's been there for you
[Chorus]
Come lay your black kinky head in a bed on a pillow of white
And sleep tonight
All while the angels will watch over you ev’ry night
The griddle cakes pop from the ground
With sweet molasses all around
Old Uncle Joe is playing tunes upon that ever old banjo
The streets are all paved with gold I am told
Ev’ry bird in the skies has diamond eyes
Now ain’t that nice
Ev’ry little kinky headed girl and boy
Has the cutest silver pony just for a toy
In the place they call that Pickaninnies Paradise
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
The streets are all paved with gold I am told
Ev’ry bird in the skies has diamond eyes
Now ain’t that nice
Ev’ry little kinky headed girl and boy
Has the cutest silver pony just for a toy
In the place they call that Pickaninnies Paradise
Now, what's the matter honey there's a tear in your eye?
Do white folks say they don't know where you go when you die?
Come to your mammy dear, and listen here
I'll tell you where those colored chillun' go when they leave here
Now, there's a happy land above the sky so blue
And listen what's been there for you
[Chorus]
Come lay your black kinky head in a bed on a pillow of white
And sleep tonight
All while the angels will watch over you ev’ry night
The griddle cakes pop from the ground
With sweet molasses all around
Old Uncle Joe is playing tunes upon that ever old banjo
The streets are all paved with gold I am told
Ev’ry bird in the skies has diamond eyes
Now ain’t that nice
Ev’ry little kinky headed girl and boy
Has the cutest silver pony just for a toy
In the place they call that Pickaninnies Paradise
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
The streets are all paved with gold I am told
Ev’ry bird in the skies has diamond eyes
Now ain’t that nice
Ev’ry little kinky headed girl and boy
Has the cutest silver pony just for a toy
In the place they call that Pickaninnies Paradise