“For The Ninth”
© Cali Lili
Lyrics by Cali Lili
Music by Cali Lili and Wings Hauser
Album Link : Song 4
https://music.apple.com/us/album/for-the-ninth/1402313761?i=1402314103
Single Link :
https://music.apple.com/us/album/for-the-ninth/1430841560?i=1430841563
She died
under arrest
I’ll bet she felt under-dressed
for an occasion of such
in-ter-est
Thankful Billie didn’t see
the crooked flood of New Orleans
The Ninth Ward she went peacefully
by morning levies they were free
Her friends were few
the pain she knew
Oh how each one was new
and some like ‘Satchmo’ they were true
i’ll be that she felt under-dressed
for an occasion of such
In-ter-est
From old New York
down to the new Bayou
you can hear the Creole cry
up Harlem Avenue
We miss you ‘Lady Day’
Sir Louis
Langston too
A dream deferred is black and blue
the Bayou weeps
for me and you
These quiet crimes
the new Bayou
they’re building us
‘a dream improved’
upon the bodies they removed
from hallowed ground
built by The Blues
She died
under arrest
i’ll bet that she felt under-dressed
for an occasion of such
interest
She
died
Under arrest.
From
old New York
down
to the new Bayou
you can hear the Creole cry
up Harlem Avenue
We miss you ‘Lady Day’
Sir Louis
Langston too
A dream deferred is black and blue
the Bayou weeps
for me
and you
The Ninth Ward
she went peacefully
thankful Billie didn’t see
the crooked
flood of New Orleans
The rivers sins
Flint Michigan
Trayvon
Tamir
And
Sandra Bland
The waters’ risin’ up again
These quiet crimes
The new Bayou
Thankful Billie didn’t see
The Crook-ed
Flood “
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