See, tomatoes are green
And cotton is white
My heroes are black
So why God got blue eyes?
My daddy, he stayed
My grandmama's a maid
My mama was brave
To take me outside
'Cause mama is white
And daddy is black
When I first got made
Guess I made these folks mad
See, I know my colors, see
But what I wanna know is
Who slashed my dad's tires and put a goat head in the back?
I guess I wasn't s'posed to know that, too bad
I guess I'm not 'posed to mind 'cause I'm brown, I'm not black
But who said that?
See, I'm black, I'm not white
But I'm that, nah, nah, I'm this, right?
I'm one drop of three-fifths, right?
Goat head in the back
Goat head in the back
Goat head in the back
Goat head in the back
Goat head in the back
Goat head in the back
Goat head in the back
Goat head in the back
Goat head in the back
Goat Head was written by Brittany Howard.
Goat Head was produced by Brittany Howard.
Brittany Howard released Goat Head on Fri Sep 20 2019.
This was the hardest song to write. I had these lyrics I’d written about what it was like growing up in the South, but they were weirdly cute: “Tomatoes are green / Cotton is white,” and so on. They were from the point of view of a child making sense of the world, making sense of the South. Then it...