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letra de mount meigs - lonnie holley

mount meigs alabama industrial school for negro children
’64, they let me go
they let me go from mount meigs, alabama
in 1964
but with some cuts and bruises that i would never forget
alabama industrial school
the hardship that the children was going through
children after children after children
picking cotton
toting those bales
bending our backs
hoeing up and down the ditches and the creeks
flatweeding
[?] tractor
[?] up the hill
changing the gears
[?]
long time coming and it won’t be long
you gonna see ol’ sally with the-
you gonna see ol’ sally, you gonna see ol’ sally with the red dress on
mr glover sitting on his can
with his greasy oily stick and [?] belt in his hands
tеlling you to put your d-ck in the hole
and he gеts ready to whip you
and beat you
down on the ground

teardrops by boys and girls
girls and boys crying
“i wanna go home”
old man get up to say, “you had a good home but you wouldn’t stay there”
“you had a good home but you wouldn’t stay there”
we was trying to understand the meaning of “wouldn’t stay there”
i was only trying to run away to find my mother
i needed my mother, i needed to be hugged
i needed to… i just needed her
i needed to know who my grandpappy was
i needed to know who my own mama was
but i didn’t know
i didn’t have no idea
sometimes feeling like a fool
thinking i was the most stupidest child that walked the earth
n0body taught us anything
got no education
n0body laughed
had no wisdom
they beat the curiosity out of me
they beat it out of me
they pushed it
they knocked it
they banged it
slammed it
d-mned it
d-mned the curiosity
i’m only goin one way down the road
and making sure you kept that road straight
making sure you kept that road straight
mount meigs, alabama
alabama industrial school for negro children
we didn’t get no scholarship
we didn’t get no graduate degree
but all of that information is still within me
all of that information
it’s 71 years old and i still think of the days
the days and days and days and more days
on top of the days
picture me being there
picture me being there
in alabama industrial school for negro children

- lonnie holley

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