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27 Feb 23 - 02:50 PM (#4166316) Subject: Lyr Add: God's Gonna Make Things Over (Tulsa 1921 From: GUEST,Rick Pollay God's Gonna Make Things Over by Guy Davis re: Tulsa race massacre – May 31, 1921 Though my people may be slaves buried down in nameless graves God's gonna make things over one of these days Tulsa Oklahoma, 1921 That's when the killing had just begun God's gonna make things over one of these days It ain’t right!... It ain’t right!... What the white folks did in Tulsa on that night W. Tate Brady* was an evil man. He was a member of the Ku Klux Klan God's gonna make things over one of these days Negroes begging down on their knees White folks hanged them up in trees God's gonna make things over one of these days It ain’t right!... It ain’t right!... What the white folks did in Tulsa on that night There was money in Greenwood town White folks burned it to the ground God's gonna make things over one of these days Black Doctor raised his hands up high And they just shot him to watch him die God's gonna make things over one of these days It ain’t right!... It ain’t right!... What the white folks did in Tulsa on that night Tell me what did you learn. When you watched my body burn? God's gonna make things over one of these days When you hang me from a tree Raise me high so my people can see God's gonna make things over one of these days It ain’t right!... It ain’t right!... What the white folks did in Tulsa on that night (X2) A few factoids about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre – May 31, 1921 35-40 square blocks of residential area in smoking ruins. Virtually every commercial structure (Black Wall Street) destroyed. Estimates of deaths ranged between 36 and 300. Official records indicate that at least 700 persons were injured, with no doubt many more not seen by hospitals, etc. Nearly 9,000 made homeless. *W. Tate Brady was the OK Commander of Sons of Confederate Veterans!! The local newspaper very racist and inflammatory For detail: https://digitalcollections.tulsalibrary.org/digital/collection/p15020coll6/search |
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27 Feb 23 - 03:07 PM (#4166317) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: God's Gonna Make Things Over (Tulsa 1921) From: Helen Thanks for posting this song, Rick Pollay. God's Gonna Make Things Over by Guy Davis |