Bye bye Black Pete!

Them blackface painting blackmailers, they just don’t get it
These two faced citizens, they keep on at it
Racism’s shame, don’t you forget it
You privileged whites, you just love to let it –

Don’t you?

A Dutch tradition, a kids play they say
An innocent saint, his slave so gay
His merry dancing, his jumping game
He’s but a toy, but really a frame –

Isn’t he?

Them blackface painting blackmailers, they keep on saying
That they’re not racist, “so stop complaining,
or else go home, from where ever you came,
you goddamn …, you are all the same” –

Oh, really?

Some Dutch tradition! Is that here to stay?!
Some ambition! For hate to display!
“Shut up your protest, for this we may
We may be bigots, so go away –

So we can party”

You blackface painting blackmailers, what’s there to celebrate?
A slavery history, to reinstate? Well,
don’t you know, it’s passed it’s sell-by date?
Your Golden Age is dead and GONE

So this is it!

Bye bye Black Pete, a goodbye so sweet
Oh, you white fools on your last feet
You blackface painting blackmailers, now take the heat!
This Dutch tradition is old indeed

It’s moulded – So hold it
It’s over, Black Pete!

Bye bye Black Pete
It’s over
Black Pete, it’s over

Tekst: Joke Kaviaar, herschreven 28 oktober 2018
Muziek: Peter Storm en Joke Kaviaar, 28 oktober 2018