Sit-In

Shuddup and Siddown Siddown Sit down Sit-down It's easy to forget there are different kinds of sitting The thesaurus reminds us you can park, perch, plop down slump, settle, slip History reminds us that sometimes sitting is what you do When you can't stand for it any longer When you're ready to start giving the orders For the soda, coffee, donuts That's all you want: the right to make an order You'll sit there unserved But not unnerved By the hatred, the hisses, the heckles There are some things so simple they're scary Your job is to simply to stay To be a statue now So that later they'll put up a statue They'll say, "Look what happened here" Because they refused to get up to let up to be kicked out No, they sat in Students dressed in their Sunday best Unthreatening at first, one waitress thought they were just "Somebody here from someplace else" Who didn't know the local custom Which Woolworth's had sworn it would follow When it was deciding who would get to sit at its counters Who would get to order coffee All black No sugar, no cream, no milk Just a cup of coffee Please