Smak Dem Christians Down

L’Italia non è il solo paese che deve affrontare quotidianamente la questione della laicità: anche gli Stati Uniti hanno qualche problema con la separazione tra Stato e Chiesa e il cantautore Jay Spears gli ha dedicato un simpatico inno.

Jay Spears – Smak Dem Christians Down

Oh, save us from your people, Lord
Oh, save us Lord, we pray
Oh, save us from your people, Lord
and make them go awayMy mammy baptized me you bet I’m washed in the Blood of the Lamb
But here’s one thing I just don’t get: who baptized Uncle Sam?
Some folks say the USA was Christian from the startBut was George Washington a Christian? No!
Was Thomas Jefferson a Christian? No!
John Adams? No! Ben Franklin? No!
Was Abe Lincoln a Christian? No! No! No!!They separated Church and State which makes dem Christians frown
And on that day I’m glad to say they smaked dem Christians down!We gotta smak dem Christians down
Smack dem Christians down
On that day I’m glad to say they
Smaked dem Christians smaked dem Christians
Smaked dem Christians downMy daddy hails from Alabam’ so the South is in my soul
I know firsthand about Dixieland and one Christian judge’s role. He said
“God made different races and gave them homes in separate places…”

So Black folk can’t marry white folk, no! Black folk can’t marry white folk!
Colored can’t marry white folk, no! Colored can’t marry white folk!
Nigras can’t marry white folk, no! Nigras can’t marry white folk! No!

The Supreme Court heard it all and to their great renown
On that day I’m glad to say they smaked dem krackers down!

We gotta smack dem Christians down
Smack dem Christians down
On that day I’m glad to say they
Smaked dem Christians smaked dem Christians
Smaked dem Christians down

Roll up the Bill of Rights and wap! wap! wap! ‘em on the head
Keep your radical Christian agenda away from my gonadicals and my pudenda!

I wish dem whacked-out Christian fools would learn from history
Instead of tryin’ to foist their bonehead rules on ‘mos like me
If you wanna live in a theocracy maybe ya oughta move to Saudi Arabia

Is the U.S. Government Islamic? No!
Is it Buddhist? No! Hindu? No!
Jewish? No! Catholic? No!
Is the U.S. Government Christian? No! No! No!!!

So if dem Christians don’t back off we’ll run ‘em outta town
And on that day I’m glad to say we’ll smak dem Christians down!

We gotta Smak dem Christians down
Smak dem Christians down
On that day I’m glad to say we’ll
Smak dem Christians Smak dem Christians
Smak dem Christians down