{"id":750,"date":"2026-01-19T09:25:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richarddelaporte.nl\/?p=750"},"modified":"2026-01-19T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:25:30","slug":"randy-newman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richarddelaporte.nl\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/randy-newman\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Newman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Een van de sterkste singer-songwriters ooit, met een bijzondere specialiteit: hij schrijft &#8211; vanuit een sterk fundament in klassieke compositie &#8211; fenomenale arrangementen voor orkest, waardoor zijn liedjes altijd perfect uitgevoerd zijn en de muziek altijd naadloos aansluit op het gevoel van de teksten, die net zo volmaakt zijn in hun emotionele uitdrukking, of ze nou treurig zijn of lieflijk, sarcastisch of gewoon absurd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ik heb hier twee oude nummers opgediept, inmiddels zo&#8217;n 50 jaar oud, waaruit blijkt dat hij een goed inzicht had in de Amerikaanse maatschappij. Wat hij toen in muziek en tekst goot, is nu, meer nog dan toen, bittere realiteit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/richarddelaporte.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2252-1024x768.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richarddelaporte.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2252-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/richarddelaporte.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2252-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/richarddelaporte.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2252-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/richarddelaporte.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2252.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/richarddelaporte.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rednecks-Randy-Newman.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>REDNECKS<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night I saw Lester Maddox on the tv show<br>With some smart-ass New York jew<br>The jew laughed at Lester Maddox<br>The audience laughed at Lester Maddox too<br>well he may be a fool, but he&#8217;s our fool<br>If they think they&#8217;re better than him they&#8217;re wrong<br>So I went to the park and I took some paper along<br>And that&#8217;s where I made this song<br><br>We talk real funny down here<br>We drink to much, we laugh too loud<br>We&#8217;re too dumb to make it in no northern town<br>We&#8217;re keeping the niggers down<br><br>We got no-neck oil men from Texas<br>Good ol&#8217; boys from Tennessee<br>College men from LSU<br>Went in dumb, come out dumb too<br>Hustlin&#8217; &#8216;round Atlanta in their alligator shoes<br>Getting drunk every weekend at the barbecue<br>And they&#8217;re keeping the niggers down<br><br>We&#8217;re rednecks, we&#8217;re rednecks<br>We don&#8217;t know our ass from a hole in the ground<br>We&#8217;re rednecks, we&#8217;re rednecks<br>We&#8217;re keeping the niggers down<br><br>Now your northern nigger&#8217;s a negro<br>You see, he&#8217;s got his dignity<br>Down here we&#8217;re too ignorant to realize<br>That the North has set the nigger free<br><br>Yes, he&#8217;s free to be put in a cage in Harlem, New York City<br>He&#8217;s free to be put in a cage in the south side of Chicago and the west side<br>And he&#8217;s free to be put in a cage in Hough in Cleveland<br>And he&#8217;s free to be put in a cage in East St. Louis<br>And he&#8217;s free to be put in a cage in Fillmore in San Francisco<br>And he&#8217;s free to be put in a cage in Roxbury in Boston<br>They&#8217;re gatherin&#8217; em up for miles around<br>Keeping the niggers down<br><br>We&#8217;re rednecks, we&#8217;re rednecks<br>We don&#8217;t know our ass from a hole in the ground<br>We&#8217;re rednecks, we&#8217;re rednecks<br>We&#8217;re keeping the nigger down<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/richarddelaporte.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Political-Science-Randy-Newman.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>POLITICAL SCIENCE<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one likes us-I don&#8217;t know why<br>We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try<br>But all around, even our old friends put us down<br>Let&#8217;s drop the big one and see what happens<br><br>We give them money-but are they grateful?<br>No, they&#8217;re spiteful and they&#8217;re hateful<br>They don&#8217;t respect us-so let&#8217;s surprise them<br>We&#8217;ll drop the big one and pulverize them<br><br>Asia&#8217;s crowded and Europe&#8217;s too old<br>Africa is far too hot<br>And Canada&#8217;s too cold<br>And South America stole our name<br>Let&#8217;s drop the big one<br>There&#8217;ll be no one left to blame us<br><br>We&#8217;ll save Australia<br>Don&#8217;t wanna hurt no kangaroo<br>We&#8217;ll build an All American amusement park there<br>They got surfin&#8217;, too<br><br>Boom goes London and boom Paree<br>More room for you and more room for me<br>And every city the whole world round<br>Will just be another American town<br>Oh, how peaceful it will be<br>We&#8217;ll set everybody free<br>You&#8217;ll wear a Japanese kimono<br>And there&#8217;ll be Italian shoes for me<br><br>They all hate us anyhow<br>So let&#8217;s drop the big one now<br>Let&#8217;s drop the big one now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Een van de sterkste singer-songwriters ooit, met een bijzondere specialiteit: hij schrijft &#8211; 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