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Verse 1
(A minor) [Spoken]
What I've realized since is that it's a very painful process but (B major) it is not destruct (C major) ive. It's the road to lib (A minor) eration. The what (B minor) really happened in the sixties
(C major) was that this country took just (A minor) the first step (B major) toward admit (B minor) ting that (C major) it had been wrong on race, (A minor) and creativity (B major) (B minor) burst out in (C major) all directions. (A minor)
Verse 2
From (A minor) the color of the faces
in (B minor) Sunday songs
To the hatred they (C major) raised
all the youngsters on
Once (A minor) upon a time in this (B minor) country, long ago
(C major) She knew there was
something wrong
Because the (A minor) song said "yellow,
red, (B major) black, and white
Every (C major) one precious in the path of Christ"
But what (A minor) about the daughter
Of the woman (B minor) cleaning their house?
Wasn't (C major) she a child they were
singin' about?
(A minor) And if Jesus
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Verse 3
loves us, black (B major)
and white skin
Why (C major) didn't her white mother
invite them in?
When did (A minor) it become a room
for no (B minor) blacks to step (C major) in?
How did she already know not
to ask the (A minor) question?
Left last (C major) ing impressions
At a lesson, comfort's gone
(A minor) She never thought things (B minor) would ever change
(B major) But (C major) she always (A minor) knew there was
something wrong
Verse 4
Always (A minor) (C major) knew there was
somethin' wrong. (A minor) (C major)
(A minor) She always (G major) knew there
was somethin' (C major) wrong (G major) (A minor)
Verse 5
(A minor)
(G major) Years (A minor) later, she found (B minor) herself
(C major) Mississippi bound to help
Stop (A minor) the legalized (B minor) lynching
of (C major) Mr. Willy McGee
But they couldn't (A minor) stop it
So they thought that they'd (C major) talk to the
governor about what'd happened
And say, "We're (A minor) tired of being used (B minor) as
an excuse (C major) to kill black (A minor) men"
But the cops wouldn't let 'em (B major) past
And these (C major) wo men,
they struck 'em as uppity
So they (A minor) hauled 'em all off to (B major) jail
And they (C major) called in protective custody
(A minor) Then from her
Verse 6
cell
She (B major) heard her jailers
(C major) Grumblin' about "outsiders"
When she (A minor) called 'em out
And said (B minor) she was from the south, (C major)
they shouted,
(G major) "Why (A minor) is a nice,
Southern (B minor) lady makin' (C major) trouble
For the governor?"
She said, "I guess I'm (A minor) not
your type of lady (B minor)
And I guess I'm (C major) not
your type of Southerner
But (A minor) be fore you call me trait (B minor) or,
Well it's (C major) plain as just to say
I was a (A minor) child in Mississippi
But (B major) I'm ashamed (G major) (C major) of it today"
She (A minor) always
Verse 7
(C major) knew there was
somethin' wrong (A minor) (B minor) (C major)
She (A minor) always (G major) knew there was (C major) somethin'
(G major) wrong (A minor) (B major) (C major) (A minor)
She always (C major) knew there
was somethin' wrong (A minor) (C major)
She (A minor) always (C major) knew (G major) there was (C major) somethin'
wrong (A minor)
([spoken] And, all of a (C major) sudden,
I realized I was on the (G major) other (A minor) side)
Verse 8
Imagine the world that you're
standing within
All of your neighbors,
they're family-friends
How How would you cope facing the fact
The flesh on their hands
was tainted with sin?
She faced this every day
People she saw on a regular basis
People she loved, in several cases
People she knew were incredibly racist
Verse 9
It was painful, (A minor)
but she (B minor) never stopped loving them
(C major) Never stopped (G major) callin' their names
(C major) And she (A minor) never stopped being
a (B major) Southern wo (B minor) man
And she (C major) never stopped
fighting for change
(A minor) And she saw that her struggle was
(B minor) in the tradition of (C major) ancestors
never aware (G major) of her
(C major) It contin (A minor) ues today:
The (B major) soul of a (B minor) Southerner (C major)
(B minor) born (A minor) of the other America
Verse 10
She (A minor) always knew (C major) there was
somethin' wrong (A minor) (C major)
(A minor) She always (C major) knew there was somethin'
wrong (A minor) (B minor) (C major)
(A minor) She always (C major) knew there
was somethin' wrong (A minor) (C major)
She (A minor) always (C major) knew there was
somethin' wrong (A minor)
Verse 11
(A minor)
[Spoken]
What you win in the immediate battles is little compared to the effort you put into it but if you see that as a part of this total movement to build a new world, you know what could be (????? "oooh,
(B minor) (C major)
(A minor) (B major) (G major) (C major) (A minor) (B major) (B minor) (C major)
(A minor) (B major) (C major) (A minor) ooooh"). You do have a (B minor) choice. (G major) (C major) You don't have to be (A minor) a part of the world (B major) of the (B minor) lyncher (C major) s. (A minor) You can (B major) join (C major) the other (G major) America. (C major) (A minor) There is another America!
Anne Braden
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