Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song The Loving Kind , by - Nanci Griffith. Song from the album The Loving Kind, in the genre Release date: 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 |