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This is a R&B/Rap/Hip hop song.  I wrote this for my reaction to racial tension in America.  I am a teacher so I also know that this could be a historical lesson of blacks in America for my students.  I would like feedback on everything about this song– lyrics, feel,  storyline. Thank you for listening and commenting.


 
Big Idea:  History never gave us what they promised

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This is a R&B/Rap/Hip hop song.  I wrote this for my reaction to racial tension in America.  I am a teacher so I also know that this could be a historical lesson of blacks in America for my students.  I would like feedback on everything about this song– lyrics, feel,  storyline. Thank you for listening and commenting.

Forty Acres and a Mule
©Schantell Wharton
 
Big Idea:  History never gave us what they promised

V1  How we got here
Ch promised never fulfilled--40 acres and mule
V2  More things done to us to keep us down and enslaved

V1
My ancestors were brought over here on a ship 
Enslaved for over 400 years
Stripped of ever right and privilege
When Lincoln freed the slave 
Southern farmers were against it
Southern states didn’t accept it

Ch
Abe promised freed slave forty acres and a mule for the service
As long as federal troops were here
We got some things we were promised
But when the troops left that quickly was taken from us
We never got our forty acres and a mule

V2
Southern states wanted to continue our enslavement
Put on the books -laws, codes and penalties for little offenses
Twenty year for spitting on pavement
That’s when chain gangs became corporate business
Equal right were never there plan
They just made us feel like second class citizens 

Ch
Abe promised freed slave forty acres and a mule for the service
As long as federal troops were here
We got some things we were promised
But when the troops left that quickly was taken from us
We never got our forty acres and a mule

Bridge 
The was everyday life for southern blacks in jim crow fashion
Living in poverty and unsanitary conditions 
Having no hope of a better future 
But choosing not to hate the established system

V3
I can’t believe that racism is subtle but still here
What are they afraid of 
We just want to unite and be true brothers
Be under one the humans race
But what happened to our 40 acres and a mule