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Harriet Tubman

from Silvery Sacrosanct by Thinkspeak

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I woke up one morning with this song stirring, kind of vague, I thought at first it was an homage to Rembrandt but… listening closer I realized it was about the courageous Harriet Tubman. I had read a biography and always wondered why, Spike Lee, if no one else, hadn't done the movie. Whoopee Goldberg, the younger incarnation, would have been perfect. Well, when someone gets to it, here's the song.

lyrics

A train to the border and then to her feet
a gun in her bodice she never did need
she knew when to step aside into the wood
she knew to show papers she knew when she could

Harriet Tubman stood in this place
head and shoulders glowin eyes in her face

2.
she knew who to hustle she knew who to trust
she knew to dissemble to shuffle and fuss
deep into the danger a terrible risk
signs floated before a guide in the mist

Harriet Tubman stood in this place
head and shoulders glowin eyes in her face

3.
nightriders came malevolent scent
she and her charges unseen in the tent
in basements and barns false bottom tenants
cross moonlit fields the dogs layin silent

Harriet Tubman stood in this place
head and shoulders glowin eyes in her face

Harriet Tubman stood in the place

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from Silvery Sacrosanct, released March 1, 2014

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Thinkspeak Atlanta, Georgia

Tom Ferguson has been writing songs since 1969, all of which are collected in Songs, 1969-2018. It's coil-bound to nicely fit a music stand, available at lulu.com just search tom ferguson there.

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