"You're My Brother Now" genre: Folk
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	A tranquil satire on racism
	CD: Man with a Mission Credits: D. Scherrer
	Story Behind the Song I was hitchhiking through the South. I woke up one morning in the cab of the rig of the trucker who was driving me to Memphis and wrote this song. It's a fantasy scenario of a sort of dubious peace accords between ethnic extremists. Lyrics The Black Panthers and the KKK Agreed today "Everyone's okay Even the Jews" Sippin' cups of Japanese tea They said, "It don't matter to me Who's in your family tree Or who is hangin' in it by a noose "Because you are my brother now Let's you and me sit and pow-wow We all can push the plow My brother" They said, "Now we can all be Crackerjack honkies And trigger-nigger monkeys We're not blacks or whites We're brownies and pinkies And various beiges" And someone shouted, "Let us drink To those little-bitty chinks!" And glasses clinked And outside, someone saluting Shooting twelve gleeful gauges Singing, "You are my brother now With equal rights endowed We slaughtered every last sacred cow My brother "You are my brother now We've taken a vow Let's take a bow My brother "Let's take a bow"

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