whiteman's ballad

i saw the whiteman coming

he's getting off his plane

he gets in his big land-rover

and heads from the mines

go

rosemary

i saw the whiteman coming

he's coming to steal

and he's coming to rape

and he calls it business

i saw the black man waiting

he's ready to rob his brothers

and to give away his sisters

for a couple of us dollars

i saw the black nurses wondering

yeah wondering why

why

why

they keep sending all these white nurses

to take away their jobs

then i saw art and tom coming

they get off the train

they're all geared up to record

and they're totally insane

i saw the white girls coming

yeah coming to get

oh what they can't get at home

it's cheap it's fun

and it don't last too long

i saw the businessmen coming

and cheating on their wives

with underage girls

buzzing around their hives

and i saw you coming back a year ago

oh won't you please

please tell me more

all about your voyage

all the things that you did

and all the people you met

now i wanna know

all the cars that you drove

and all the girls you've been fooling around with

and i saw you

i saw you coming back

a year ago