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{SPEAKER name="Horace "Spoons" Williams"}

Sure they'll hang any ole innocent black man,
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and will laugh at his mother's tears, and only because he's been accused of a crime,
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that the white man committed for years.
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Oh Father God, they tie us to stakes down here and they tear our flesh with their whips
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and we're fed like hogs and shot down like dogs.
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And they dare us to part our lips. And we work in their fields everyday for pennies, from dawn to dusk,
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but when the days are over, not even thanks is given us.
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Oh Father God, our people are being hung and our churches are being bombed.
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And high shares for dogs are being paid to use black jacks and lead on our people
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head, but for this no arrest will be made.
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If so, what's the use - they'll just turn them aloose.
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And will pin golden medals on their chest.
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And then they will hire some others because those other brave brothers will be sent out of town for a rest.
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My Father God, the grass turned red, from the blacks who are dead and their bodies can find no rest.
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Until the vultures have gone leaving only the bones and the hurt in black mothers' breast.
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Oh Father God, you know we're made to fight in all their wars and they teach us to shoot their guns,
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but as soon as they have won a victory you know our voices then begun.
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Because the same soldiers that we fought beside to bring them a victory,
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Oh Father God, they're some of the same who hide behind sheets, and destroy our family.
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Oooh, you know they seem to forget about those days and nights when bullets zoomed about our heads,
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and we all smoked from the same cigarette and we ate off the same piece of bread.
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Now, Father God - you know that I believe in you - but I just don't think it's fair
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for us to have to fight like hell down here, then do the same damn thing up there.
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