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Amma Jerusalem School Lyrics by Matana Roberts

Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile

2013

[Instrumental]
When thunder shook the ground
Be not afraid and heard the master cry
Be not afraid of dying in the storm
Thats past over
Obituary easter white man built us a chapel
Moved down to the missisispi went to the baptis church
Jersullemn school
And the heavene and joy and the center of return
There's some things i just can't tell you about honey
I step on the stage one night
My heart went pity to pat
I heard somebody say whos little pretty girl is thast
Jpsha won the battle on
Jericho jericoh
The lilies
All the children love me so why should i care
Four motnhs of school
Four months for sharecroppers' children
October 1st to march 1st
Fifty cents a day for chopping cottons
Time is hard
Honey times was hard
January 1949
I graturatdet when I was...
Daddy bought me a ring and a picture in the year book
And i got my hair off
Free
And did grass around the cotton
1949 there are some thing i just can't tell you about honey
We gre our own vegeatbles
Though momma always said The stiches were too low
I sgin bc im happy
I sing bc im free
His eyes on the sparrow and i know he watches over me
You'd have the top layer and the bottom layer
The cotton btwn
Like a picture honey yknow what im talking bt
Haning from the cieling
Like a picture honey yknow what im talking bt
Momma didn't want me to go far, she said
Dont go far with no man
My mother passed away
And she was 11
He gave her the power of becoming
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Matana Roberts

Matana Roberts

About “Amma Jerusalem School” by Matana Roberts

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"Amma Jerusalem School" appears on "Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile" in 2013.

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