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dawg day

(7,947 posts)
Sat Jun 20, 2020, 06:13 PM Jun 2020

Alexa is playing me old protest songs. Sam Cooke-- A change is going to come--

And this by the lovely and stern Nina.

When I think of how simply dangerous it was for black musicians to sing protest songs by them-- humbled. This is about MLK's death:

Nina Simone: Why (The King of Love Is Dead) -

What's gonna happen now? In all of our cities?
My people are rising; they're living in lies.
Even if they have to die
Even if they have to die at the moment they know what life is
Even at that one moment that ya know what life is
If you have to die, it's all right
Cause you know what life is
You know what freedom is for one moment of your life

But he had seen the mountaintop
And he knew he could not stop
Always living with the threat of death ahead
Folks you'd better stop and think
Everybody knows we're on the brink
What will happen, now that the King of love is dead?



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Alexa is playing me old protest songs. Sam Cooke-- A change is going to come-- (Original Post) dawg day Jun 2020 OP
Kick lunasun Jun 2020 #1
I had a CD of Sam Cooke's gospel music-- dawg day Jun 2020 #2

dawg day

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2. I had a CD of Sam Cooke's gospel music--
Sat Jun 20, 2020, 09:24 PM
Jun 2020

And the second CD was his "love" music (more "sex" . They sounded similar--that voice of his was criminally appealing, no matter what he was singing.

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