The word "white trash"
They had different names for the poor
But it has a much older meaning
At least as far as we've been able to discover
White trash really comes of notions of poverty
We judge people by the way they're dressed
By the way they talk
By the unwritten codes of class behavior
Proud to be white trash
Any other group of people, you call on the name
You're a racist, you're a bigot or you're insensitive
But you can say whatever you want about white trash
Nobody cares
Not even white trash
But it has a much older meaning
At least as far as we've been able to discover
White trash really comes of notions of poverty
White trash [2x]
But you can say whatever you want about white trash
Nobody cares
Not even white trash
We judge people by the way they're dressed
By the way they talk
By the unwritten codes of class behavior
They had different names for the poor
White trash really comes of notions of poverty
Our history forces us to confront things
That at times we don't want to