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Strange Messengers
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Patti Smith
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I looked upon the book of life
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Tracing the lines of face after face
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Looking down at their naked feet
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Bound in chains bound in chains
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Chains of leather chains of gold
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We knew it was wrong but we looked
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away
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And paraded them down the colonial
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streets
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And that's how they became enslaved
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They came across on the great ships
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Mothers separated from their babes
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Husbands stood on the auction block
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Bound in chains bound in chains
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Chains of leather chains of gold
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Men knew it was wrong but they looked
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away
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And led them to toil in fields of white
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As they turned their necks to a bitter
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landscape
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Oh the people I hear them calling
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Am I not a man and a brother
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Am I not a woman and a sister
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History sends us such strange
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messengers
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They come down through time
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To embrace to enrage
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And in their arms even stranger fruit
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And they swing from the trees
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With their vision in flames
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Ropes of leather ropes of gold
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Men knew it was wrong but they looked
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away
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Messengers swinging from twisted rope
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As they turned their necks to a bitter
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landscape
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Oh the people I hear them calling
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Am I not a man and a brother
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Am I not a woman and a siste
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r We will be heard we will be heard
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