Sundown Town Song

SUNDOWN TOWNS

Written By: Barry P. Foley
Copyright © 15 Sep 2022

Chorus
Don’t let the sun go down on you, Boy
Didn’t you see that sign at the city limits
Get done, what you came to do don’t you be hanging round
Best be gone when that whistle blows, this is a Sundown Town

Ten thousand Sundown Towns reached from Maine to out west
Beyond where Jim Crow was allowed to exist
City Governments made racist laws, to keep the negro out
So the white folks could live their fantasy in their Sundown Towns

Cities like Mena Arkansas were bold to brag
And proudly posted their racism in tourism ads,
Cool summers and mild winters, and pure clean water
No mosquitoes, no blizzards and no Negros

Repeat Chorus

TAG: Don’t let the sun go down on you, Boy

I’m being nice this time, don’t come back here. Hear!