Ballad of Walter White

Now Walter White
Is mighty light.
Being a colored man
Who looks like white,
He can go down South
Where a lynching takes place
And the white folks never
Guess his race—
So he investigates
To his heart’s desire
Whereas if he was brownskin
They’d set him on fire!
By being himself
Walter finds out
What them lynchers
Was all about.
But back to New York
Before going to press—
Cause if the crackers ever got him
There’d be one Negro less!
Yes, it’s our good fortune
He was born so light
Cause it’s swell to have a leader
That can pass for white.