The Quantitative Roland Stephen Taylor Ubiquitous Volume

Songs: We Don't Need No Colour Code

• Recording Info
• Lyrics
• Notes and Interpretations

Recording Info

We Don't Need No Colour Code has had 3 different recorded versions released over the years. The versions are:

1. studio version recorded for the Meltdown Project. It appeared on the following recordings:
   • Meltdown
2. live version recorded and filmed at Castle Ashby, England on 26 August 1985. It appeared on the following audio and audio/visual recordings:
   • Limelight
   • Limelight - The Film
   • Now The Truth Can Be Told
   • Now The Truth Can Be Told - The Video
3. cover version recorded by the band Bride for the Steve Taylor Tribute album, Various Artists: I Predict A Clone.

Lyrics

We Don't Need No Colour Code

written by Steve Taylor in Los Angeles
Copyright © 1984 Birdwing Music/Cherry Lane Music Publishing Co., Inc./C.A. Music (ASCAP)

Down Carolina way
Lived a man name o' Big B.J.
B.J. went and got a school
Founded on caucasian rule
Bumper sticker on his Ford
Says "Honkies If You Love The Lord"

CHORUS

We don't need no colour code
We don't need no colour code
Take your rules and hit the road
We don't need no colour code
Judgment Day is goin' down
Better burn your cap and gown

White man speak with forked tongue
White supremists eat their young
Bigotry is on the loose
Ignorance is no excuse
I know Jesus loves that man
Even with a Greenville tan

(CHORUS)

Marching to Pretoria
Colour codes in churches huh?
Following a fascist creed
Whose translation do you read?
True believers won't be snowed
We don't need no colour code

(CHORUS)

Notes and Interpretations

To come. Also read Galatians 2 as Steve references it in the liner notes on Meltdown.

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