Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Loving Kind, artist - Nanci Griffith. Album song The Loving Kind, in the genre
Date of issue: 31.12.2008
Record label: Rounder
Song language: English
The Loving Kind |
They were the loving kind |
She was black and he was white |
In Virginia nineteen fifty-eight |
They found love amongst the hate |
Well the law said they could not wed |
They married anyway |
The sheriff put them both in jail |
Separated 'till they made their bail |
They changed the heart of a nation |
With their wedding vows |
From the highest court in the land |
Their union would lawfully stand |
Simply Mildred and Richard |
That’s how they’ll be remembered |
They proved that love is truly blind |
They were the loving kind |
The Lovings lived a quiet life |
In their Virginia home |
And while the case worked it’s way through the courts |
They brought three children to this world |
Richard died in seventy-five |
Mildred kept their love alive |
'Till the spring of two thousand-eight |
Fifty years beyond the hate |
They changed the heart of a nation |
With their wedding vows |
From the highest court in the land |
Their union would lawfully stand |
Simply Mildred and Richard |
That’s how they’d be remembered |
They proved that love is truly blind |
They were the loving kind |