Lonnie Holley - I Snuck Off the Slave Ship

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In a distant shoreline I could see standing there Watching ships a-sailin' in Ship after ship after ship, oh, sailing in Standing in wonder, standing there Watching the capture of my body To take me somewhere Neck drop, oh, neck drop off Chained in by Rope tied me down Beating me bloody, drove me around Dragging me all the ways, took them all, babes without food or water Me and so many others, oh, oh Driving for the shoreline Put us on the boat, oh, floated us out to the sea Tossed us down in the galleys Tossed us down into darkness So many humans crying Whining, wiggling, and moving Trying to break free So much time of uncontrol And just before drowning My head down in the water An old woman say to me Hold your head Hold your head Hold your head up high And that’s when I Took a ride on my imagination I took a look and flied off To pure reality Rose above all the slaves Tied and shackled down Tied up on each other Men and women and children, too And probably women was pregnant Said oh, what they gonna do, what they gonna do, what they gonna do I snuck off I snuck off I snuck off a slave ship In my imagination I snuck off the slave ship Saw all the bodies that was tossed over And then I knew it On account of the bodies On account of the bodies Drowning in the water Then when I got to the shoreline I saw those that was harvesting from huge machines I started crying, I was crying over and over We cried at sea Working in the fields, laboring From sun-up to sun-down Laboring and laboring Oh, the slave master Whipping and beating them down Dragging them around And oh, they was being rebellious I saw them hanging by the limbs of trees I snuck off, I snuck off I snuck off the slave ship I saw the blood Drip, drip, drip Drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip Dripping after drip I saw the sweat, oh, mixing up Mixing up in the tears Humans working fields Down in the valleys along the hill All the way up the mountainside And then the laborers come laboring Some civilization I snuck off, I snuck off I snuck off the slave ship In my imagination By way of a melcla fly (?) I seen the wounded lying Dead And lying, aw And fields turning to factories Full of those humans that once they called them slaves In the streets Through the industrial manor Building and building and inventing Sixin and lyin all they come to be Oh, I snuck off the slave ship I saw humans and humans, oh And companies And factories Working their fingers to the bones And then I looked up I remembered I snuck off Off the slave ship To look up and see And fly above the main Flying ? I saw the airplane Thought I saw ? the Hindenberg Skip all explosion round Kept on exploding down, down, down With humans aboard Humans aboard Tossed and laboring Just to drop up and down And ball And scrawl all around Explosive The scrawl that city Scrawling parts of society That humans call civilization I snuck off, I snuck off I snuck off the slave ship Seeing humans crying and dying Nowhere to be buried Bodies laying all around And I saw museums being built all around the world Just to house the information For the formal education For every man woman boy and girl To learn Meanwhile Began to sneak on another Speaking all the slave ship I snuck off I snuck off the slave ship, just, just Just to sneak on another And now I’m on further exploration Further, further further further further further further On and on Further, further further further further further further on On and on I saw human made proves probing Me by Saw human made satellites, oh Circling the earth around I saw space shuttles Stabbing in space centers I saw in the wonder, the technology Mirror that reflects us How humanity would turn out To be I snuck off Snuck off the slave ship Just to sneak on another Now here it is I snuck on I sneak off I snuck on To sneak off and By putting on to the slave ship I snuck off the slave ship Had to sneak on another From the slave ships
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