Professor Clarence Glover Jr. On America’s 250th Anniversary of The Declaration of Independence and 40th Anniversary of In Remembrance of Martin Streaming on Amazon Prime
We’s Be Southerners
American chains on our bodies
African drums beat within our souls
We’s Be Southerners
Gumbo seeds and black eyed peas
Watermelon and collard greens
We’s Be Southerners
Pickin’ white cotton on black land
Indigo blue and Mississippi Blues
We’s Be Southerners
Black skin in da’ hot sun
Working til da’ day is done
We’s Be Southerners
Building white mansions
on plantations
For other folks
We’s Be Southerners
Cooking food we can’t eat
Walking miles barefeet
We’s Be Southerners
Singing spirituals in a strange land
Praying Da’ Lawd take our hand
We’s Be Southerners
Saturday night dancing in Junk Joints
Sunday mornin’ praising God in Church
We’s Be Southerners
Looking to the North
for the Freedom Star
Underground Rail Road can’t be far
We’s Be Southerners
Sees a ban all dressed in red
Looks like da’ ban dat Moses led
We’s Be Southerners
Sees a ban all dressed in white
Looks like a ban of Israelites
We’s Be Southerners
Oh say we can see
The Land of Liberty
We’s Be Southerners
Ancestral dreams
And Sankofa memories
We’s Be Southerners
The labor pains of Freedom
America, born again in us
We’s Be Southerners
HALLELUYAH !
Professor Clarence Glover Jr. aka Professor Freedom. Take the chain off your brain, so your mind can work. Google: glover cotton
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