Lyr Add: abolition of the slave trade

Subject: Lyr Add: abolition of the slave transportation
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 04:21 AM

Les challenged me to write this song especially for this occassion
18 months ago. I now over in Hull they have been planning for this 200 year anniversary for some time

Am I not a man and a brother
(for William Wiberforce)

Chorus
Am I not a man and a brother
Take your stand help abolish this trade
Another day amongst the sugar
Fourteen hours, lonely hours
Cutting cane

Film cast o're the eyes of mankind
Norris evidence has made you blind
Help us, please help us be saved.
Dance to the tune of the Whip
Release us from the transporters grip
Once a freeman, now I am a slave

Such misery in such little room
Shackeles ringing our slavery's tune
Torn at night from my kin and my home
Stand ere them so no other
Steals a child from its mother
To face disease, death or fate unknown

Wilberforce pleace hear our call
Tell our story in your parliament halls
To wise men who sanctified the trade
Merchants you cannot know
Your riches from misery grow
Is it your God given right to make men slaves

Your were your peoples choice
You were my peoples voice
Gent of joy on the side of right
You were my peoples voice
Lost much you had no choice
Twenty years is a long time to fight

Wilberforce this negro gold
Each child and adult bought and sold
Out of many one people now stand
July 1834
800,000 free once more
Man's reminder a hand held out to hand

© S Haithwaite August 2005

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: abolition of the slave trade
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 08:27 AM

Sue I always love your lyrics and we do have an uncanny knack of writing about the same things -look forward to hearing this live!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: abolition of the slave trade
From: Les from Hull
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 09:44 AM

Thanks for posting this Sue. Here's a link to Wilberforce 2007