<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=565077" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My fore people</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My fore people<br>Birth the spiritual<br>Because God wanted<br>To hear it<br>He said ‘I feel your pains<br>Sang it away, sang’<br>And they opened their mouth<br>And the spiritual rang out<br>Go tell it on the mountain.<br>My fore mothers<br>Birthed the blues<br>Because they knew<br>That life in Americus<br>Wasn’t fair<br>So their souls said to them<br>Lady Day croon<br>Bessie Smith zoom<br>With the blues<br>Strange Fruits<br>My fore father<br>Birth jazz<br>Out of necessity<br>Out of chains around<br>Their ankles<br>They blow the sounds<br>Of the death bell<br>To tell that the struggler<br>Was not in vain<br>They blow jazz from<br>Within and still<br>There was more to give<br>Around midnight</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+E.+Patton">David E. Patton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=565077" data-title="My fore people de David E. Patton" data-description="My fore people Birth the spiritual Because God wanted To hear it He said ‘I feel your pains Sang it away, sang’ And they opened their mouth And the spiritual rang out Go tell it on the mountain. My fore mothers Birthed the blues Because they k..."></div> </div> </div>

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