Word: gettin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Intellectuals are "overeducated, ivory-tower folk," or "pointy-headed professors who can't even park a bicycle straight." He says: "Any truck driver'd know right off what to do at the scene of an accident, but you take a college professor, he'd just stand around lookin' and gettin' sick...
...damn nigger paper here." Terrified silence. "We're gettin' so sick of you nigger lovers." This was beginning to sound familiar. "Why don't you get out of our town--why don't you go back where you belong. We hate you so much. We want you to stay away. We don't want you and your white nigger friends comin' here." Just one line was missing from the ritual, and it came in a minute. "We're gettin' just about ready to kill us one of you nigger lovers. You think we should kill you?" No thank...
...History class's gettin' bigger and bigger...
...town, summer in the city; back o' my neck gettin' dirty and gritty. Been down, isn't it a pity; doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city...
...been getting some attention in the city because of the colorful malediction of his title song. The album's other lyrics, sung to interchangeable tunes, are a standard collection of complaints ("I got pockets full of troubles every payday"; "I can't get over me not gettin' over...