Said the scalawag to the carpetbagger "Let's hatch a plot so cloak-and-dagger A few monkey trials in a kangaroo court k** the hoi polloi and the real McCoys." So the twang-fakers and the fat cats Started hobnobbing and the Dixiecrats The Kentucky Colonels and the Ku Klux Klan Got knocked a new tune out of LaLa Land As the swirling beam of the signal feed Cuts the night into moonbow rings Sad individuals keep the blue light vigil And believe the shows are between their commercials Don't believe the lies Wake up and rise It came as no surprise To these South Electric Eyes These South Electric Eyes South Electric Eyes South Electric Eyes So the salt-of-the-earth turns scum-of-the-earth With the altar-ego of the Christless Church All left to waller in the squalor of the holler With a redneck ring around a blue collar
So I stayed up late at the fever pitch To see the lamps dim when they threw the switch The rabble and cabal of both sides of town Had a ball when they drove ole Dixie down Don't believe the lies Wake up and rise It came as no surprise To these South Electric Eyes These South Electric Eyes South Electric Eyes South Electric Eyes Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lies! Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lies! Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lies! Lie lie lie lie lie lie lies! Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lies! Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lies! Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lies! Lie lie lie lie lie lie lies! Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lies! Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lies! Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lies! Lie lie lie lie lie lie lies!