50th Anniversary Collection: 1963

Title: Hiding Too Long (NYC Town Hall, 4-12-63)
Artist: Bob Dylan
Album: 50th Anniversary Collection: 1963 (Track #25)
Duration: 02:24
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Come, you phony superpatriotic people that say that hating and fearing is my only way that this here country has got to be. You're thinkin' of your sales, you ain't thinkin' of me. You're not thinkin' of any George Washington. You're not thinkin' of any Thomas Jefferson. But you say that you are. And you lie and mislead. You use their names for your aims, for your selfish greed. Don't speak to me of your patriotism, when you throw the southern black boy in prison. And you say the only good niggers are the ones that have died. Don't think I'll ever stand on your side. Though you make it so hard for me to love, my face shall never feel the slap of your glove. My cards will never buy... My hands will never buy the cards that you play. My feet 'll never walk down the road that you lay. Get out in the open, stop standin' afar. Let the whole world see what a hypocrite you are. I ain't jokin' and it... it ain't no gag, you've been hiding too long behind the American flag.