Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Black & White, artist - Janis Ian. Date of issue: 31.08.1997
Song language: English
Black & White |
| We were marching from Montgomery |
| Alabama, '65 |
| Freedom riders, Jim Crow heroes |
| Come to keep the faith alive |
| We were picking Southern cotton |
| Registration for the vote |
| We were one then |
| We were young then |
| When black &white still spoke |
| Now it’s all gone to pieces |
| God alone knows why |
| Just a story they call history |
| Written down in black &white |
| And we set aside our anger |
| And we set aside our fears |
| And we built a common future |
| On the bedrock of our tears |
| And we marched for the children |
| And the millions without hope |
| We agreed to believe |
| When black &white still spoke |
| Now it’s all gone to pieces |
| God alone knows why |
| Just a story they call history |
| Written down in black &white |
| Nothing’s sadder than the man who |
| Thinks he’s free when he is chained |
| To the prison of his hatred |
| And a dream gone up in flames |
| Colored only at the fountains |
| Congregations, soda shops |
| Colored only in the bathrooms |
| And the cemetery lots |
| And if Jesus was a black man |
| Or as white as Sambo’s grin |
| It’s his words that we’d remember |
| Not the color of his skin |
| It’s all gone to pieces |
| God alone knows why |
| Just a story they call history |
| Written down in black &white |