Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Rise Of The Black Messiah, artist - Indigo Girls. Album song One Lost Day, in the genre Иностранная авторская песня
Date of issue: 01.06.2015
Record label: IG
Song language: English
The Rise Of The Black Messiah |
They called you the rise of the black messiah like so many boys before you |
And they’ll be more, more to follow threatening and hard to swallow |
I’m sitting underneath that hanging tree, just me and the ghost of the KKK |
Poor man’s gallows in the middle of the woods — the saddest tree that ever stood |
My friend I heard you tell of slavery’s end but have you heard of mass |
incarceration |
That ol' Jim Crow he just keeps getting born with a new hanging rope for the |
black man’s scourge |
Hey ol' man river, what do you know of that plantation they all Angola? |
The devil spawned a prison there — the saddest farm that ever lived |
Your great grand-daddy, he worked that land with shackles on his feet and on |
his hands |
He built them levees he chopped that cane he died in the mud in his chains |
Now you stand where he once stood shackles on you all the same |
But he’s gonna rise, he’s gonna rise and all them lynches are gonna be damned |
When outta that mud walks a brand new man |
They called you the rise of the black messiah and said they’d do any damn thing |
the could to keep ya — |
You and your brothers from spreading the word, the gospel of freedom and the |
black man’s worth |
40 years in solitary, consider the man they just can’t bury |
I got this letter in my hand, saying tell this tory when you can |
He’s gonna rise, he’s gonna rise and all them lynchers are gonna be damned |
When outta that hole walks a brand new man |