Galt MacDermot
I’m Black / Ain’t Got No
[HUD]
I'm black
I'm black
[WOOF]
I'm pink
I'm pink
[BERGER]
I'm Rinso white
[CLAUDE]
I'm invisible
[WOMAN 1 & (ENSEMBLE)]
Ain't got no home (So)
Ain't got no shoes (Poor)
Ain't got no money (Honey)
Ain't got no class (Common)
Ain't got no scarf
Ain't got no gloves (Cold)
Ain't got no bed (Beat)
Ain't got no pot (Busted)
Ain't got no faith (Catholic)
[MAN 1 & (TRIBE)]
Ain't got no mother (Orphan)
Ain't got no culture (Man)
Ain't got no friends (Lucky)
Ain't got no schoolin' (Dumb)
Ain't got no shine
Ain't got no underwear (Bag)
Ain't got no soap (Dirty)
Ain't got no A-Train
Ain't got no mind (Lost it)
[MAN 2 & (TRIBE)]
Ain't got no smokes (Shit)
Ain't got no job (Lazy)
Ain't got no work
Ain't got no coins
Ain't got no pennies (Hustler)
Ain't got no girl (Horny)
Ain't got no ticket
Ain't got no token (Walk)
Ain't got no God (Good)
[THREE SOLOISTS & (ENSEMBLE)]
Ain't got no grass (Can't take no trip)
Ain't got no acid (Can't blow my mind)
Ain't got no clothes (You're full of pus)
Ain't got no pad (You're full of piss)
Ain't got no apples (We got balls)
Ain't got no knives (Can't cut you up)
Ain't got no guns (We got bananas)
Ain't got no garbage (White trash!)
Ain't got no draft card (Burned it, burned it, burned it)
[ENSEMBLE]
Ain't got no earth
Ain't got no fun
Ain't got no bike
Ain't got no pimples
Ain't got no trees
Ain't got no air
Ain't got no water
City
Banjo
Toothpicks
Shoelace
Teachers
Football
Telephone
Records
Doctor
Brother
Sister
Uniforms
Machine guns
Airplanes
Germs
M-1, bang bang bang
M-2, bang bang bang
A bombs
H bombs
P bombs
Q bombs
Chinese
Czechs
Hindus
Bindus
Italianos
Polacks
Germans
Youse
Jews
Up and downs
[WOMEN]
Vietnam, Johnson, high school, sex
[MEN]
Coffee, books, food, scissors, magazines, news
[WOMEN]
Cigarettes, Hollywood, TV, Tuesday Weld
[MEN]
Burton-Taylor, Pop art, pop off, pop
[WOMEN]
Pop up, Andy Warpop, pop
[MEN]
Pop up, Popeye, poppers
[WOMEN]
Napalm, England, outer space
[ENSEMBLE]
Astronauts, Jesus, air, air, air, air
Air, air, air
Ain't got no home
Ain't got no shoes
Ain't got no money
Ain't got no class
Ain't got no scarf
Ain't got no gloves
Ain't got no bed
Ain't got no pot
Ain't got no faith
Ain't got no God