The Song of the South lyrics tell a story of transformation from rural poverty to urban stability:
The verses describe the hardship of sharecropping, noting, "Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch / We all picked the cotton but we never got rich". It highlights how disconnected the rural poor were from national news: "Somebody told us Wall Street fell / But we were so poor that we couldn’t tell". alabama_song_of_the_south_lyrics
The lyrics reference the New Deal and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's impact on the South with the line, "Mr. Roosevelt's gonna save us all". The Song of the South lyrics tell a