Songtext von The Weeping Time

Hermes flew on wings yesterday My friend grady did say How ya getting along, she’s like a song She’s on the amtrak ramble through Georgia The high noon heat blue nailed to skies Lilies on a surface of lies From dust we came to dust we return The tired dirt road of Georgia Keep the memory of the weeping time alive Keep the memory of the weeping time alive We resist, we persist, we insist, we resist Keep the memory of the weeping time alive From the cradle to the grave in the home of the brave Every row we will hoe We toil and work all day, river marks the waterway The altamha river of Georgia Birds circle and wheel in formation O’er the butler island plantation Enslaved people are sold down in savannah Oh the auction block of Georgia Time steps onto the train Time with her dominant refrain How many drowned How many survived How many were caught again If the water could weep If the dogs could speak Stories are etched in the bones of the gullah The ways are old down here Olde oak, Spanish moss, turtles and gators We sing the memory of the gullah The Moon comes out onto the sky She is all shimmering and shy She lays herself down to cry Four egrets cry Keep the memory of the weeping time alive Keep the memory of the weeping time alive We resist, we resist, we insist Keep the memory of the weeping time alive