Luyện nghe bài hát Anne Braden

What Ive realized is
That it is a painful process
But it is not
Its the deliberation

That what really in the '60s
Was that this took just the first step
admittin that it had been wrong on race
And creativity burst out in all

From the color of the faces in Sunday
To the hatred they raised all the on
Once upon a time in this country, ago
She there was somethin wrong

Because the song said yellow, red, black, and
Everyone in the path of Christ
But about the daughter of the woman cleanin their house
Wasnt she a child they singin about?

And if Jesus us black and white skin
Why her white mother invite them in?
When did it become a room for no blacks to in?
How did she know not to ask the question?

lastin impressions
Adolescences comforts
She never thought would ever change
But she always knew there was wrong

She always knew was somethin wrong
She always knew there was wrong

Years later she herself Mississippi bound
To stop the legalized lynchin of Mr. Willie McGee
But they couldnt stop it, so, thought
That theyd talk to the governor about happened and say
Were tired of bein used as an excuse to kill men

But the cops wouldnt let em
And women they struck em as uppity
So, hauled em all off to jail
And called it protective custody

Then from her cell she heard her grumblin about outsiders
When she called him out and said she was from the
They shouted, Why is a nice lady
trouble for the governor?

She said, I I'm not your type of lady
And I guess I'm not your type of
But before you call me traitor, well, its just to say
I was a child in Mississippi but I'm ashamed of it

She always knew there was wrong
She always knew was somethin wrong
She always knew there was somethin
She always there was somethin wrong

And all of a sudden I realized I was on the other side

Imagine the world youre standin within
All of your and family friends
How would you cope the fact
The flesh on their hands was tainted with

She faced this day
In people she saw on a regular
People she in several cases
People she knew were incredibly

It was painful but she stopped lovin them
stopped callin their names
And she never stopped bein a Southern
And she stopped fightin for change

And she saw that her struggle was in the
Of ancestors aware of her
It continues today, the soul of a
of the other America

She always there was somethin wrong
She always knew there was wrong
She always knew was somethin wrong
She always knew there was somethin

you win in the immediate battles is
Is little compared to the effort you put it
But if you see as a part
Of this movement to build a new world
You know cathedral you're buildin
you put your stone in

You do have a
You don't have to be a of the world of the lynchers
You can join the America
There is an America