#figure 3

Some of the boys, Have got it into their heads, About moving up North, To follow the bread, But that ain't for me, That kind of thing just don't rate, This is one Southern boy, Who ain't crossin' the Strait.

Now we might not be rich, But when you come from down here, You know we got the best girls, And the best damn beer, So you can keep your Queen City, With your cocktails and cool, Give me a beer in a seven, With the boys shooting pool.

I'm a Southern Man Well I'm Southern bred I got the South in my blood And I'll be here till I'm damn well dead

'Cos down here we know What makes a Southern boy tick And it ain't margueritas With some fruit on a stick Well it might not be fancy But when you come from down here You know you got the best girl And you got the best beer.

Paul Sietsema. Still from film Figure 3, 2008. 16mm film (black and white and color, silent), 16 min., The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Fund for the Twenty-First Century. © 2009 Paul Sietsema.