Gather round I’m a-warnin’ you mothers
Gather round I’m a-warnin’ you fathers
Gather round all you sisters and you brothers
Old Jim Crows a-tryin’ to come back again.

Thought Jim Crow was on his death bed
Thought I saw the carver carvin’ his death head
Thought they wrapped him in his winding sheet
But he done crawled out and he’s a-hittin’ the street.

He’s a-creepin' around tryin’ to come and get you
Step at a time 'til you don’t know what hit you
Deceiver, deluder with a killer con
Look away and everything you got’s done gone.

Gather round I’m a-warnin’ you mothers
Gather round I’m a-warnin’ you fathers
Gather round all you sisters and you brothers
O-old Jim Crows a-tryin’ to come back again.

In 1965 we almost got him
Hollered and he cursed but we kicked him to the bottom
2021 he’s crawlin’ out once more
Backhand, gerrymand it’s all the same Jim Crow.

He’s blowin’ cross the land like an old southeaster
All dressed up like a two-bit preacher
Bony fingers reachin’ for the hard won prize
Tryin' to steal it back before our very eyes.

Gather round I’m a-warnin’ you mothers
Gather round I’m a-warnin’ you fathers
Gather round all you sisters and you brothers
O-old Jim Crows a-tryin’ to come back again.

Soon be time, he’s tryin’ to come back again
Devil Jim’s a-comin’ back again
We gotta kick him back into his hole again