As We Go Along

So its as plain as the night That I’s black and he’s white That I work as he reaps That I plough and I weep While he sleeps Sleeps it away When he’s sad and depressed I rejoice with a sigh To know that he may, suffer as I But its wrong Cuz I know whats wrong But we move along When he’s angry and mad Its our god’s day off We suffer the lash And in sighs he dismounts like a fool He thinks he’s god And we go along Its not like we can do nothing’ We stop and dance We cheer and sing We destroy the buds and smoke the weed While they says we dumb We sit and read We learn to write We learn as we please And you know why? Its to be a whole new me.. They says we low So we raise up higher They says we dumb So we strive to be smarter They says we ain’t good Cuz our skin is black But our blood is red Unlike the blue blooded fools Who sit out in the night Livin’ the life of power and might I can say That they move on But that’s not in this song They don’t live life Like lords and kings They have little respect from their subjects and knaves But I live a life Far richer then theirs With music and dancin’ Each night on the farm And I’m livin’ life As I move along