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Black Woman, ooh, Black Woman
Like me, you’ve traveled long
You trod one of life’s roughtest roads
You got the heaviest load
To be someone, to belong
To near your mile and a half furlong
Don't give up now
Just pray for strength now
For you I dedicate my song
La da da da da da da da da da da da da da
Whoo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo
We are forsaked once in the plantation
Lashes to our skin
On auction blocks we were chained and cold
Handled merchandise
Highly abused and warmth we were refused
And thrown in garbage bins
But no need for that now
Free us, stand on back now
And help me to sing my song
La da da da da da da da da da da da da da
Whoo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo
When you're fighting stand up for the right thing
And not that which is wrong
I heard Rachel mourning for her children
When Herod and Pharaoh took their little heads
But like Mary and like Joseph
Mother of Moses too
Overcame its evil devices
I dedicate my song for you
La da da da da da da da da da da da la da
Whoo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo
Black Woman, ooh, Black Woman
I know you’ve struggled long
I feel your affliction
For you I dedicate my song
La da da da da da da da da da da da la da
Whoo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo
Like me, you’ve traveled long
You trod one of life’s roughtest roads
You got the heaviest load
To near your mile and a half furlong
Don't give up now
Just pray for strength now
For you I dedicate my song
Whoo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo
Lashes to our skin
On auction blocks we were chained and cold
Handled merchandise
Highly abused and warmth we were refused
And thrown in garbage bins
But no need for that now
Free us, stand on back now
And help me to sing my song
Whoo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo
And not that which is wrong
I heard Rachel mourning for her children
When Herod and Pharaoh took their little heads
But like Mary and like Joseph
Mother of Moses too
Overcame its evil devices
I dedicate my song for you
Whoo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo
I know you’ve struggled long
I feel your affliction
For you I dedicate my song
Whoo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo
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Black Woman by Judy Mowatt (1980)
Black Woman (1980)
In this song, Judy Mowatt honors her Black sisters, and shares in their inherited traumas and struggles as descendants of slaves. She reflects on the toilsome path of her ancestors and the abuse that they endured, and that Black people endure today still. She closes the song with an encouragement to stand the rights of the People. She speaks on how the sinful heart wages death upon the innocent, but that victory is promised for those who are obedient as according to Biblical scripture.
References:
Matthew 2:16-21: https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-2-16_2-21/