What Ive since is it is a very painful process But it is not Its the deliberation
That what really in the '60s Was that country took just the first step admittin that it had been wrong on race And creativity out in all directions
the color of the faces in Sunday songs To the hatred raised all the youngsters on Once upon a in this country, long ago She knew was somethin wrong
Because the song said yellow, red, black, and Everyone precious in the path of But what about the daughter of the woman their house Wasnt she a child were singin about?
And if Jesus loves us and white skin Why her white mother invite them in? When did it become a room for no to step in? How did she already know not to ask the
Left lastin comforts gone She never thought things would change But she always knew there was somethin
She always knew there was wrong She knew there was somethin wrong
Years later she found herself Mississippi To help stop the legalized lynchin of Mr. Willie But they couldnt stop it, so, they That theyd talk to the about what happened and say tired of bein used as an excuse to kill black men
But the cops wouldnt let em And these women struck em as uppity So, they em all off to jail And they called it custody
Then from her she heard her jailers grumblin about outsiders When she him out and said she was from the South They shouted, Why is a nice Southern trouble for the governor?
She said, I I'm not your type of lady And I guess I'm not your type of But you call me traitor, well, its plainest just to say I was a in Mississippi but I'm ashamed of it today
She always knew there was somethin She always there was somethin wrong She always knew there was somethin She always knew there was wrong
And all of a sudden I realized that I was on the other
Imagine the world that youre within All of neighbors and family friends How would you facin the fact The flesh on their hands was tainted with
She this every day In people she saw on a basis People she in several cases People she were incredibly racist
It was painful but she stopped lovin them Never callin their names And she never stopped a Southern woman And she never stopped for change
And she saw that her was in the tradition Of never aware of her It today, the soul of a Southerner of the other America
She always there was somethin wrong She knew there was somethin wrong She knew there was somethin wrong She knew there was somethin wrong
What you win in the battles is Is little compared to the you put into it But if you see that as a Of this total to build a new world You know cathedral you're buildin When you put stone in
You do a choice You have to be a part of the world of the lynchers You can join the other There is an America