To: Albion Wilde
Nice. Thank you. Did you write that?
18 posted on
10/30/2012 4:37:11 PM PDT by
spankalib
(The downside of liberty is the need to tolerate those who despise it.)
To: spankalib
...the fire next time.I believe it is from an old "Negro" spiritual. The last line was used by activist James Baldwin as a book title during the Civil Rights era of the 60s.
22 posted on
10/30/2012 4:46:15 PM PDT by
Albion Wilde
(If God can send millions of ordinary folks to preserve a chicken store, He can fix this mess.)
To: spankalib
Old song, IIRC it’s what used to be called a Negro Spiritual.
23 posted on
10/30/2012 4:47:12 PM PDT by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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