Sign My Name to Freedom by Betty Reid-Soskin

Author:Betty Reid-Soskin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2018-01-11T05:00:00+00:00

Monday mornin’ . . . streets are bare . . .

seems as how dey don’ want me nowhere

since ah went to the Courthouse and sign mah name to freedom.

daughta say, “mustn’t run . . .

sound the trumpets . . . the Kingdom’s come!

Mamma go to the Courthouse

’n sign yo’ name for Freedom.”

Fields afire—cotton flamin’

’neath the summa skies

Shrouds ’o White . . . no name namin’.

Dey don’ know ’dis dream cain’t die

Churches burned—deacon dead

still ah know it’s like daughta said

ain’t no turnin’ back now—

Got to sign mah name to freedom.

Young folks heah a’roun’ mah table talkin’ through the night

faces heah ah cain’t label—

brown ones blendin’ wid da white . . .

Sunday mornin’ . . . church ain’t there

bombed it Wednesday but ah cain’t care

God was down at the Courthouse day

ah sign mah name to freedom

Ma Lawd was down at the Courthouse—day ah sign mah name.

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