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I Will Be Redeemed

from Living in the Trees by Jeff Roberts

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Based on a true story: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_Ford_lynchings

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I Will Be Redeemed
Copyright 2017 Jeff Roberts

there's a tree in Georgia
that never should have grown
it held the bodies upright
they were tied with rope

I will be redeemed I will sing and shout
and I will be restored
just not now

May Marie was twenty four
heavy with a child
when her head had fallen down
they cut the baby out

forty legs that walked away
forty eyes that saw
twenty souls that never said a word
to the Georgia law

nineteen ninety seven
fifty years had gone
someone came to find the place
and mark the dead with stones

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from Living in the Trees, released July 23, 2020

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Jeff Roberts Charlottesville, Virginia

Jeff Roberts is a songwriter, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from Virginia and other undisclosed locations.

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