Poems by Bob Moses

DEEP BLACK 'SIPPI WILLIE
Based on the song Deep Blue Sea as sung by Odetta

WILLIE,
DEEP BLACK 'SIPPI.

DEEP BLACK 'SIPPI
WILLIE
DEEP BLACK 'SIPPI

DEEP BLACK 'SIPPI
WILLIE
DEEP BLACK 'SIPPI

IT WAS WILLIE
WHAT GOT FREEDOM
IN THE DEEP BLACK 'SIPPI

FREED HIS SOUL
FROM HIS BLACK BODY

FREED HIS SOUL
FROM HIS BLACK BODY

FREED HIS SOUL
FROM HIS BLACK BODY

IT WAS WILLIE
WHAT GOT FREEDOM
IN THE DEEP BLACK 'SIPPI

RAISED UP HIGH
ON HIS GOLD'N WINGS

RAISED UP HIGH
ON HIS GOLD'N WINGS

RAISED UP HIGH
ON HIS GOLD'N WINGS

IT WAS WILLIE
WHAT GOT FREEDOM
IN THE DEEP BLACK 'SIPPI

DEEP BLACK 'SIPPI
WILLIE,
DEEP BLACK 'SIPPI

DEEP BLACK 'SIPPI
WILLIE,
DEEP BLACK 'SIPPI

DEEP BLACK 'SIPPI
WILLIE,
DEEP BLACK 'SIPPI

IT WAS WILLIE
WHAT GOT FREEDOM
IN THE DEEP BLACK 'SIPPI

[For SNCC field secretary Willie B. "Wazir" Peacock]

All poems copyright © Bob Moses, 2016, all rights reserverd.

 


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