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Correct In The Fold Lyrics
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Matana Roberts
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Correct In The Fold
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This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine Oh, this little light of mine I thought maybe mama would come looking for me I'm not sure what was happening but if I do recall I could hear mama screaming his name in a defeated kind of lovesickness As I ran, I was so scared but I knew they would find me I had never been so hungry Daddy taught me how to fashion a knife out of a stick And I tried to catch me a rabbit but that old rabbit was faster than me One day, I came out of the clearing and I started exploring the edges of the woods And there was this oddly covered plate I pulled back the fabric and it was dripping With gravy and biscuits and grits and fatback I knew it might be a trap but my stomach defied me And it became routine Each day, it would be set further out of reach And each day, I would inch a bit closer towards home A new home, home, a new home, home, a new home I am a child of the wind, even daddy said so We used to race and I would always win And he said "Run baby run, run like the wind, that's it, the wind" Memory is a most unusual thing, one day I never knew how they found me in those woods But their love drew me close somehow I never saw mama again and I had somehow knew that daddy had walked on Many years later, I heard that mama had died in the asylum It hurt me so, I prayed, she was taken in her lonesomeness Those hooded bastards beat her senseless To the point where she could not remember their transgressions That's good, I suppose I am a child of the wind, even daddy said so We used to race and I would always win And he said "Run baby run, run like the wind, that's it, the wind" Memory is a most unusual thing, someday As the evening shades are drawn and this day comes to an end I am reminded of the shades of life are being drawn with me My physical window will soon be darkened as I sit in here and cry and write My mind has gone many places I am not the person I have been Well, things could be worse It's so long for now Forgive us, we pray Forgive us, we pray Forgive us, we pray I am a child of the wind, even daddy said so We used to race and I would always win And he said "Run baby run, run like that wind, that's it, the wind" Memory is a most unusual thing This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine
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