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Chrismus On The Plantation · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Christmas on the plantation. It was Christmas eve. I mine
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  Speaker 1: hit for a mighty gloomy day, both to weather and
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  Speaker 1: the people. Not a one of us was gay. Cause
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  Speaker 1: you'll think that's mighty funny. Twell, I try to make
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  Speaker 1: it clear. For a Daykie is all as happy when
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  Speaker 1: the holidays is nea, But we wasn't for d Moan
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  Speaker 1: and Masta it told us we must go n He'd
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  Speaker 1: been paying us since freedom, but he couldn't pay no
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  Speaker 1: mo He want never used to planning for he got
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  Speaker 1: so poor and old, so he gwine to give up trying,
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  Speaker 1: and a homestead must be soul. I can see him
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  Speaker 1: standing now or pond a step is clea is day
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  Speaker 1: and wo to win a kind of fondling through his hair,
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  Speaker 1: all thin and gray. And I remember how he trembled
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  Speaker 1: when he said, it's hard for me not to make
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  Speaker 1: your Christmas Brida, but I low it want to be.
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  Speaker 1: All the women was a crying, and the men too
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  Speaker 1: on to sly. And I noticed something shining even in
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  Speaker 1: old Masta's eye, but we all stood still to listen.
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  Speaker 1: Is old Ben comefomed to crowd and spoke up a
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  Speaker 1: trying to steady down his voice and make it loud.
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  Speaker 1: Look here, masta, I's been serving you for lo dese
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  Speaker 1: many years freeze and now since we's got freedom and
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  Speaker 1: use kind of po it peers that you want us
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  Speaker 1: all to leave you cause you don't think you can pay.
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  Speaker 1: If my memory hasn't fooled me, seemed dat what I
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  Speaker 1: had you say ere in other woods. You wants us
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  Speaker 1: to fog it that you's beIN kin and as soon
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  Speaker 1: as you is hepless, wee's to leave you here behind. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if dat's de way this freedom acts on people, white air,
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  Speaker 1: black pregnancy, you can just tell mister lincolm for detect
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  Speaker 1: his freedom back. We gwan woke this old plantation for
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  Speaker 1: whatever we can get for I know it did support
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  Speaker 1: us and a place can do it. Yet now de
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  Speaker 1: land is Yo's de hands is ours, and I reckon
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  Speaker 1: will be brave and will ba as much as you
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  Speaker 1: do when we has to scrape and save ol. Masta
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  Speaker 1: stood dare tremblin', but a smilin through his tears blinked
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  Speaker 1: and din it seemed just nutchol like to place for
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  Speaker 1: wrong wid chia's knockin' a soon as day was quiet,
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  Speaker 1: someone stated soft and low praise God, and then we
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  Speaker 1: all joined in, from whom all blessings flow. Well, there
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  Speaker 1: wasn't no use trying, while men's was sought to stay
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  Speaker 1: nambrol ol Masta couldn't plead near beg neer drive us away,
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  Speaker 1: And all at once it seemed to us the day
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  Speaker 1: was bright again. So everyone was gay that night and
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  Speaker 1: watched the Christmas Inn