Linda Winchell - 'Change She Is A Comin'

Change she is a comin now
I's sees it comin down this old dirt road.
Been a long time comin for sure
thought I's was gonna die before I's knowd.

My pa and ma has passed away
Gone now to meets da Lord.
Always told me to be a good little girl
and to do as I's was told.

I's plowed da fields and picked the cotton
read the good book every day.
I's lived the best life of any I's could
And now have lived to see great History made today.

A man of skin almost as dark as mine
President of dis great United States.
Took our peoples long enough I's say
To bring us out from white of man's mistake.

I's couldn't be more proud of him
Mr. Barack Obama my forty forth U.S. President.
Now God can come and take me home
I's lived all of this life God for me had meant.

Linda Winchell

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