I am circling over the void
to see if you need me
maybe i could get a job
a place to live
a place decent for a working man
i don't need much but a
morning to wake up in and
say like last night i saw the
girl a moon ago i knew her
in tukabahchee county a
flower at crane's ford
i guess i had left her
in alabama
to make a morning where
she could lay right here next to me
i'm a working man
got your ice i will walk
it up the stairs for you
sledge hammer easy for me
to lift a broad back like a shelf with
a bunch of hard sinews
the place i come from
a few doors were closed
got lame in the foot
a stubborn mule
hauled logs for the
railroad line worked a mill
until not wanting his cotton stole
i saw someone killed again
his knuckles on display in a jar
in an atlanta grocery store
years later they came
down for southern workers
to organize those
factories in the field they said blacks
hungry and po that there
was no reason to work like
that no mo but sharecropper's
union brought
the crane's fork riot
just like time ago
elaine arkansas
black led cooperative
brought the
phillips county massacre
jailed and slain
had to die or go
sledge hammer yeah i can
throw down sledge hammer
i work real hard calaris said
the train come silver wheels
on the side way leverage
work on your
streetcar lines woman you
need me riveting steel for planes
and guns to stop
the fascist's charge
change minds at home
train kept falling off the
track didn't know if i could
make it up here
jitterbug your icing
lindy hop your cake hey
i ain't dropping no coin
until i can feel
a job's winter heat
will you let me stay here
taste my way awhile
morning moon
i be your chocolate man
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