Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Black Woman , by - Judy Mowatt. Release date: 19.06.2005
Song language: English
Black Woman |
| Black woman, ooh, black woman |
| Light me up, troubled long |
| You trod one of life’s roughest roads |
| You got the heaviest load |
| To be someone, to belong |
| Too near mile and a half furlong |
| Don’t give up now |
| Just pray for strength now |
| For you I dedicate my song |
| We are forsaked once in the plantation |
| Lashes to our skin |
| On auction blocks we were chained and sold |
| Handled merchandise |
| Highly abused and warmth we were refused |
| And thrown in garbage bins |
| But no need for that now |
| Free us, stand on back now |
| And help me to sing my song |
| When you’re fighting stand up for the right thing |
| And not that which is wrong |
| I heard Rachel mourning for her children |
| When Herod and Pharaoh took their little heads |
| But like Mary and like Joseph |
| Mother of Moses too |
| Overcame its evil devices |
| I dedicate my song for you |
| Black woman, ooh, black woman |
| I know you’ve struggled long |
| I feel your afflictions |
| To you I dedicate my song |