Joy Denalane - Stranger In This Land

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[00:00.00]Stranger In This Land - Joy Denalane
[00:13.21]I was the daughter
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[00:18.95]Of a little known king
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[00:22.36]When they came
[00:23.83]And put me in a castle
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[00:28.19]My eyes had never seen
[00:31.42]
[00:32.68]They spoke in tongues
[00:33.88]I've never heard
[00:35.09]
[00:36.13]They took me to the sea
[00:38.24]
[00:38.75]At the edge of the earth
[00:44.05]I journied tempest waters
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[00:47.14]Reached these distant shores
[00:49.15]My clothes are tattered
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[00:52.05]And my soul is worn
[00:53.63]
[00:54.40]I bore a daughter
[00:56.11]In captivity
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[00:58.82]They came late one night
[01:00.87]To take her away from me
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[01:05.45]I cried and I cried
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[01:08.12]Oh, Lord have mercy on me
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[01:10.87]Can't they see
[01:12.66]That little girl
[01:13.40]Is royalty
[01:14.35]I held my ground
[01:17.78]And took my stand
[01:20.12]Can't help
[01:21.74]Feeling sometimes
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[01:24.92]That I'm a stranger
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[01:29.00]In this land
[01:30.31]In this land of mine
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[01:38.08]My mother used
[01:39.46]To cook and clean
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[01:42.64]For the rich folks
[01:44.12]On the hill
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[01:47.66]Made sure
[01:48.39]I got an education
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[01:53.08]And could hardly
[01:53.93]Pay the bills
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[01:56.72]I studied
[01:58.33]Schools of thought
[02:02.49]And philosophies of man
[02:04.78]Started questioning
[02:05.92]The contradictions
[02:06.72]In this land
[02:09.05]I left the classroom
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[02:11.08]Joined the rallies
[02:12.39]In the street
[02:13.13]
[02:14.55]Marching hand in hand
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[02:16.60]In the Mississippi heat
[02:19.30]I spent so many years
[02:21.50]Of my life on the move
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[02:25.06]That confrontation
[02:25.56]Was the only thing i knew
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[02:30.40]Talking unity and how
[02:32.18]We gone push on through
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[02:34.26]Can't even say no more
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[02:38.17]If anything's improved
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[03:25.59]I'm a family man
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[03:27.64]With a wife
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[03:29.59]And two kids to feed
[03:31.57]
[03:34.48]I dedicated my life
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[03:40.05]To seeing we succeed
[03:42.05]
[03:44.27]The way I sought to make it
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[03:47.00]I learned to follow the rules
[03:48.79]
[03:50.32]So we can make sure
[03:51.79]Our children visit
[03:53.37]The finest schools
[03:55.31]Grandmas on the weekends
[03:57.86]Going on about the good old days
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[04:01.25]When decent black folks
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[04:03.83]Be trying to make a change
[04:05.65]My parents used to tell me
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[04:08.17]To live my life steadfast
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[04:10.78]But some may ask me
[04:13.35]What it is that I have