Down Home

[00:14.57] Tol' the bell, Big Bethel
[00:17.24] Tol' that big Black ex-Liberty Bell
[00:21.17] Tell freedom there's death in the family
[00:25.07] All these wings, and they still won't let me fly
[00:29.08] All this land
[00:30.83] All we get is six feet when we die
[00:36.94] Don't tell me how the breezes blow
[00:42.38] The daisies nodding to and fro
[00:47.66] The cotton fields as white as snow
[00:52.92] When freedom doesn't grow down home
[00:57.67] Down home
[01:00.82] Body can't be free, Missy, down home
[01:09.07] Berry picking ain't no treat
[01:14.30] Picking in your natural feet
[01:19.87] The country summer ain't so sweet
[01:25.13] It's just a lot of heat down home
[01:30.06] Down home
[01:32.96] Before you start your beat down home
[01:40.61] You can have your black-eyed peas
[01:45.99] The morning glories and the trees
[01:51.23] You just can't do the things you please
[01:56.52] Crawling on your knees down home
[02:01.47] Up north
[02:04.22] (Where?)
[02:05.73] That's the place to be, up north
[02:08.14] (Up north?)
[02:08.93] Oh yeah, that's where I'm goin', uh-huh (no!)
[02:12.69] You are seven
[02:14.89] Livin' in a room
[02:18.09] Up above a cheap saloon
[02:23.06] Your future tied up to a broom
[02:27.96] Uh-uh, Purlie
[02:28.64] Freedom doesn't bloom
[02:31.14] Up North
[02:32.64] Down home
[02:35.52] A body's better off down home
[02:43.57] I'm sick of floppin' in this shack
[02:48.58] Paper stuffin' in the cracks
[02:53.60] An' totin' 'round a burlap sack
[02:58.74] The world gets on your back down home
[03:03.70] Up north (No, Purlie)
[03:07.47] Sister, picture me way up north
[03:10.66] (Picture you up north, child)
[03:13.87] I see you sittin' on a concrete step
[03:18.97] I see you pickin' knots and threes to bet
[03:24.23] Your ever-lovin' is soon
[03:28.20] In debt
[03:29.73] That's the deal you get
[03:32.60] Up north
[03:35.92] Down home
[03:37.53] A body's better off down home
[03:42.54] The answer, brother
[03:44.44] To your prayers
[03:47.51] It ain't livin' up no flight of stairs
[03:52.36] It's havin' you
[03:55.08] A fairer share
[03:57.46] Of this old country air
[04:01.19] Down home
[04:03.47] Down home
[04:05.35] Just a fairer share down home
[04:13.58] Oh Lord, if I could live to see
[04:18.84] Freedom on a willow tree
[04:23.72] Growin' sugar sweet for me
[04:29.02] How pretty life could be down home
[04:34.08] Down home
[04:36.17] How pretty life could be down home
[04:42.04] Oh, walled up in a city park
[04:47.07] The dogwood ain't about to bark
[04:52.15] And you can't hear a meadowlark
[04:57.25] Like just before it's dark down home
[05:02.00] Down home
[05:04.97] It's peaceful when it's dark down home
[05:13.21] The ties of home that bind are strong
[05:18.57] And Georgia is my home sweet song
[05:23.64] Ain't no one gonna treat us wrong
[05:28.78] Or tell us that we don't belong
[05:33.31] Down home
[05:36.54] I know that I belong down home
[05:42.32] I know that I belong
[05:45.71] Oh, my sweet sister Missy (yes, Purlie!)
[05:51.26] Down home
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