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Verse 1
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Janis Ian
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We were marching from
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Alabama, '65
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Freedom riders, Jim Crow heroes,
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come to keep the faith alive
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We were picking Southern cotton,
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registration for the vote
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We were young then
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when black & white still
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spoke
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Now it's all gone to pieces
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God alone knows why
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Just a story they call history
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written down in black & white
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And we set aside our anger,
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and we set aside our fears
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And we built a common future
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on the bedrock of our tears
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And we marched for the children
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and the millions without hope
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We agreed to believe,
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when black & white still spoke
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Now it's all gone to pieces
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God alone knows why
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Just a story they call history
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written down in black
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& white
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Nothing's sadder than the man who
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thinks he's free when he is chained
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to the prison of his hatred
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and a dream gone up in flames
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Colored only at the fountains,
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congregations, soda shops
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Colored only in the bathrooms
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and the cemetery lots
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And if Jesus was a black man
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or as white as Sambo's grin
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it's his words that we'd remember
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not the color of his skin
It's all gone to pieces
God alone knows why
Just a story they call history
Outro 1
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