Janis Ian - Black & White Lyrics
We were marching from Montgomery
Alabama, '65
Freedom riders, Jim Crow heroes
Come to keep the faith alive
We were picking Southern cotton
We were one then
We were young then
When black & white still spoke
Now it's all gone to pieces
God alone knows why
Just a story they call history
Written down in black & white
And we set aside our anger
And we built a common future
On the bedrock of our tears
And we marched for the children
And the millions without hope
We agreed to believe
When black & white still spoke
Now it's all gone to pieces
God alone knows why
Just a story they call history
Written down in black & white
Nothing's sadder than the man who
Thinks he's free when he is chained
To the prison of his hatred
And a dream gone up in flames
Colored only at the fountains
Congregations, soda shops
Colored only in the bathrooms
And the cemetery lots
And if Jesus was a black man
Or as white as Sambo's grin
It's his words that we'd remember
Not the color of his skin
It's all gone to pieces
God alone knows why
Just a story they call history
Written down in black & white
Other Lyrics by Artist
- Janis Ian - Welcome To Acousticville
- Janis Ian - No One Else Like You
- Janis Ian - Tenderness
- Janis Ian - Take No Prisoners
- Janis Ian - Ready For The War
- Janis Ian - Breaking Silence
- Janis Ian - Some People's Lives
- Janis Ian - This House
- Janis Ian - Through The Years
- Janis Ian - This Train Still Runs
- Janis Ian - Walking On Sacred Ground
- Janis Ian - His Hands
- Janis Ian - What About The Love
- Janis Ian - Davy
- Janis Ian - When The Silence Falls
- Janis Ian - Hunger
- Janis Ian - Searching For America
- Janis Ian - Getting Over You
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- Olivia Newton-John - So Easy To Begin
- Olivia Newton-John - I Think I'll Say Goodbye
- Olivia Newton-John - Don't Ask A Friend
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