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8/3/2019 In Search of a Song Vol. 595
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Patrick Vassell
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Patrick
Vassell
A Waterways Project
Publication
Richard Spiegel
Barbara Fishercodirectors
Thomas Perry
administrative assistant
Jane Califf
Teacher
Susan Salkin
Center Administrator
Lois Rekosh
Director
Frederick Douglass Literacy Center
Richard Organisciak
Superintendent
Alternative, Adult and Continuing Education,
Schools and Programs
Funding.support from
New York State Council on the Arts
Empire State Partnership Program, Learn & Serve
America, & The NY Times Co. Foundation
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1920's
In the 1920's I woke up.Is it a dream or is it reality?
Is it really happening or not?
In the 19Z0's I woke up.
No lights, no TV.
.1asked ,"What is your entertainment?"
They say books.
How could this be real?
No work! How do you liver
.They say,"By God"s will."
In the 1920'sIwoke up
Yeah, it was rough
But they made it become the past
And that is where I woke up.In the 1920's.
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RastaMan
A Rasta Man with hair 2 feet long, and smokinghis ganja.
A Rasta Man with his own belief and respect due
to other Rasta man.
A Rasta Man who says Selassi is God, and flash
his hair which is 2 feet long.
And my friend say that is a mad man.I say no man, that is a Rasta Man with his hair 2
feet long and smoking his ganja man.
Define Love
Love, what a word.
Love, who knows what it means.
Love, is it good or bad?
I don't know, why you ask me star?
Love my mother gives me every day .
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To me love is great, wonderful and marvelous.
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Life
Life is a funny thing.It goes back and forth
like a bumper car.
but when you get hit
you keepon going
and don't stop.. Life is just like that.
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Sometimes you're on top.
sometimes you're at the bottom
Don't matter what,
Youkeep on going,
and don't stop.
Life is filled with advantages,
and disadvantages.
But through it all you keep on goingand don't stop. .
And life is just like that.
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MalcolrnX
I am a black manLiving by the name they called Malcolm X.
Not riigger, colored, or boy, just Malcolm X.
Iam 'a black man living by the name called
Malcolm X .
Who grew in a family of eight children and
father died
when Iwas six.
Iam a black man
Living by the name called Malcolm X.With my pride, dignity, respect and
black power.
Not a stupid man, just a smart one.
Living by the name called Malcolm X.
And yes, I am a black man
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•Stop Sign
Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!Stop Sign. Stop my black
brothers and sisters. Stop killing each other'
over material items.
Look how many people diedshowing you the stop sign.
like Martin Luther King and Marcus Garvey
All I ask is for you to Stop the
violence.
Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!
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Crumbling down
Crumbling downThe world crumbling down on me:
prostitution, hate, war, death
and evil workers.
Crumbling down on me.Love, good kids, Christians, teachers
and preachers.
Crumbling down on me.
Knives, guns, rockets, war planes
and missiles.
Crumbling down on me.
Bibles, books of both great and good men,
Soothing music and birds of peace. .
The world crumbling down on me
both good and bad.
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My Soul
My soul is free. which strengthens my bodyand makes my ideas flow.
My soul is free and speaks with dignity
About power, knowledge and wisdom:
I am a winner because my Soul is Free.
My Mother
My Mother.
Loving me, caring for me.
Being there through good and bad times.
My Mother.
The woman of my life.
She has good and bad times.
But through it all she still loves me.
because she's my mother.
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Chains of Babylon
Chains of Babylon.We are in the chains of Babylon.
They program our minds to let us
think that Columbus is a good man;
let us know nothing about our ancestors.
Chains of Babylon.
They bring guns into our nation
and let us think that blacks are no good.
So we kill each other filling up
the precincts, penitentiaries, jails and reform
schools .
.Chains of Babylon ..
They have taken us from our
country and then have the heart to tell us
we ought to go back home
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Where is home?
Africa, that's our ancestors.
We were born here.You should go back home because you are
from Europe.
Chains of Babylon.
It is wrong to us blacks .
.But that's the
chains of Babylon!
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Running (Part one)
Running!What am I running from?
Is it love?
No!
Love never hurt anyone.
I wonder is it from religion, God or
Christians?
But who did they kill?
So is it death?
But no man can escape death.
Ah! I know what I am running from -
violence!
I am talking black on black violence.
I am running from my own black brother and
sister
I am running!
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Running (Part 11)
Running from violence!I've been running all my life
And now I am tired, tired of running
I've been running because I am scared,
Scared of hate, war, and black on black
violence.
Now I will stop running
And I will stop hate and war
But most of all stop black on black violence.
Now I will stop running
Because I am a man and not a coward.
I will not run any more
I will stand up and fight against crime like a
man!
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