Mount Meigs

Lyrics for Mount Meigs

Mount Meigs Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children '64, they let me go They let me go from Mount Meigs, Alabama In 1964 But with some cuts and bruises that I would never forget Alabama Industrial School The hardship that the children was going through Children after children after children Picking cotton Toting those bales Bending our backs Hoeing up and down the ditches and the creeks Flat weeding Hearing the old Farmall tractor Chucking up the hill Changing the gears Singing a song Long time coming and it won't be long You gonna see ol' Sally with the- You gonna see ol' Sally, you gonna see ol' Sally with the red dress on Mr. Glover sitting on his can With his greasy oily stick and fan belt in his hands Telling you to put your dick in the hole And he gets ready to whoop you And beat you Down on the ground Teardrops of boys and girls Girls and boys crying "I wanna go home" Old man get up to say "You had a good home but you wouldn't stay there" "You had a good home but you wouldn't stay there" We was trying to understand the meaning of "wouldn't stay there" I was only trying to run away to find my mother I needed my mother, I needed the hugs I needed to... I just needed her I needed to know who my grandpappy was I needed to know who my own mama was But I didn't know I didn't have no idea Sometimes feeling like a fool Thinking I was the most stupidest child that walked the Earth Nobody taught us anything Got no education Nobody let us have no wisdom They beat the curiosity out of me They beat it out of me They whooped it They knocked it They banged it Slammed it Damned it Damned the curiosity I'm only goin one way down the row And making sure that you kept that row straight Making sure that you kept that row straight Mount Meigs, Alabama Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children We didn't get no scholarship We didn't get no graduate degree But all of that information is still within me All of that information At 71 years old and I still think of the days The days and days and days and more days On top of the days Picture me being there Picture me being there In Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children