Now I'm a black mother, Lord I knows that now, Black and burnin in these burnin times. I can't hold my peace cause peace ain't fit to mention When they's fightin right here in our streets Like dogs—mongrel dogs and hill cats.


Black Mother Praying (1944)


Now I'm a black mother, Lord I knows that now, Black and burnin in these burnin times. I can't hold my peace cause peace ain't fit to mention When...

Now I'm a black mother, Lord I knows that now, Black and burnin in these burnin times. I can't hold my peace cause peace ain't fit to mention When...

Now I'm a black mother, Lord I knows that now, Black and burnin in these burnin times. I can't hold my peace cause peace ain't fit to mention When...

Now I'm a black mother, Lord I knows that now, Black and burnin in these burnin times. I can't hold my peace cause peace ain't fit to mention When...