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Viewing Lyrics for Letter From May Alice Jeffers:
| | | Artist: | Small Fred |
| | Album: | Loves Gonna Carry Us | | Track: | Letter From May Alice Jeffers | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 1 |
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| | | Lyrics: | I'm an old woman typing
Old as the year, seventy-eight
Hear what I say
I was born in
Laurel, Mississippi,
I live in North Carolina today
With my grandson James.
Now
about the children
I had five children before the Great Depression
Five more since
then.
All of them are living now
But the one that died in the war.
All the rest had
children, too.
CHORUS:
Don't blame the children
Every girl, every
boy,
They ain't no burden,
They're my pride and joy.
I know they're
beautiful
Like leaves on a tree
And as I am growing old
They shelter me.
I
have worked at every kind of job
Nursed people, preached, and sang
When I was a young
woman, I built roads
I have not worked a job
In nineteen years--my grandchildren
Take
care of me.
Now listen to me
Babies don't cause poverty
'Cause poverty
Is
just people never paid enough for what we done.
You hear them talk--barefoot and
Pregnant.
But I been barefoot
Pregnant or not.
CHORUS
I have known
socialists
They stayed in my home in 1964
For the vote drive
They were like my
children
I don't care if they be black or white
God bless you and all the
socialists
My first husband was a Methodist
We did not drink but we did
dance
When we had our family picnic
I think the white folks thought the colored
Was
taking over, there was so many,
And the young men still ask me to dance.
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