Credited on the record as Rod Rogers.
I'm Proud to Be a Hippie From Mississippi
M.S.R. 572 · Hollywood, California
- Artist
- Rodd Keith
- Credited on the record as
- Rod Rogers
- Title
- I'm Proud to Be a Hippie From Mississippi
- Release
- I'm Proud to Be a Hippie From Mississippi / The Reindeer Song
- Label
- M.S.R. # 572
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Hollywood, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Macarthur Reagan
- Genre
- Folk · Psychedelic Folk
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
I'm Proud to Be a Hippie From Mississippi (Rogers, Rodd) M.S.R. Records # 572. Song-poem, California. Novelty. Answer record to Merle Haggard - Okie From Muskogee. Draft card burning, drugs, counter-culture. Lyrics attributed to Macarthur Reagan.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Song Poems
- "I'm Proud to Be a Hippie From Mississippi" - Performer: Rodd Rogers - Label: M.S.R. Records # 572. - Songwriter Macarthur Reagan - Song-poem, California. Novelty. Answer record to Merle Haggard - Okie From Muskogee. - Draft card burning, drugs, counter-culture.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Hey, we don't smoke marijuana unless we want some / Sometimes we take a trip on LSD / We always burn our draft card on bank street / Cause we don't believe in fighting to be free / Sometimes we make a party out of loving / But we like a pretty woman and and the things at college / We even let our hair grow long and shaggy / We just like the hippie style in San Francisco / Some people laugh at my roman sandals / But let them laugh, they've got the right / Marijuana is what we smoke in the daytime / LSD when we go to bed at night / I'm proud to be a hippie from Mississippi / There is no place to swear at all / I've never seen the flags wave on the courthouse / But let me tell you, every night I have a ball... / We got almost anything that turns you own
Notes
Song poem
About the artist
Pseudonym of Rodd Keith (born Rodney Keith Eskelin, 30 January 1937). Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, the best-known figure of the song-poem genre, recording hundreds of compositions from amateur-submitted lyrics under names including Rod Rogers. Died 15 December 1974, falling from an overpass onto the Hollywood Freeway, Los Angeles, California, USA. [Source: Wikipedia; LA Times via Last.fm]
Themes
Draft · Draft Card Burning · Song Poem · Counter-Culture & Hippies · Drugs · Answer to Muskogee · Satire
In collections
Draft Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years] · Song Poems