Broken Freedom from LURE by Kid Mania
Tracklist
| 10. | Broken Freedom | 5:25 |
Lyrics
We were slaves all our lives. My mother was a slave, sister was a slave,
father was a slave.
Didn’t know nothin about readin and writin. All I know they teach you is
mind your master and missus.
Momma and them didn’t know where to go, see, after freedom broke.
Just turn, just like you turn something out, you know.
Didn’t know where to go.
They take that ol woman, poor ol woman,
carried her in the peach orchard, and whipped her.
And, you know, just tied her hands this a way, you know,
round the peach orchard tree.
I can remember that just as well, look like to me I can,
and round the tree and whipped her.
You know, she couldn’t do nothing but just kick her feet, you know,
just kick her feet.
But they, just had her clothes off down to her waist, you know.
They didn’t have her plum naked,
but they had her clothes down to her waist.
And every now and then they’d whip her, you know,
and then snuff the pipe out on, you know,
just snuff the pipe out on her.
You know, the embers in the pipe.
I don’t know whether you ever see a pipe smoking.
“They put it out on her?”
Um-hum, um-hum.
“Good Lord! Have mercy!”
Now I couldn’t go from here across the street,
or I couldn't go through nobody's house
’out I have a note, or somethin from my master.
And if I had that pass—that was what we call a pass—
if I had that pass I could go where ever he sent me.
And I’d have to be back, you know,
whoever he sent me to, they, they’d give me another pass.
And I’d bring that back so as to show how long.
When we were slaves, we couldn’t do nothing, you see.
After we got free we didn’t know nothing to do.
And my mother, she, then she hunted places,
and she bound us out for a dollar a month.
We didn’t have no property.
We didn’t have no home.
