Mount Meigs
Lonnie Holley
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MOUNT MEIGS Mount Meigs Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children ‘64 They let me go They let me go from Mount Meigs, Alabama In 1964 But with some cuts and bruises that I will never forget Alabama Industrial School The hardships that the children was going through Children after children after children Picking cotton Toting those bales Bending our backs Hoeing up and down the ditches and the creeks Flat weeding Hearing the old Farmall tractor chucking up the hill Changing the gears Singing the song Knock Time Coming and It Won’t Be Long, You gonna see old Sally, you gonna see old Sally with the red dress on” Mr. Glover sitting On his can With his greasy, oily stick and fan belt in his hand Telling you to put your dick in the hole As he gets ready to whoop you and beat you down on the ground Teardrops of boys and girls Girls and boys crying “I wanna go home” Old man get up and say, “You had a good home but you wouldn’t stay there” “You had a good home but you wouldn’t stay there” We was trying to understand the meaning of “wouldn’t stay there” I was only trying to run away to find my mother I needed my mother I needed the hugs I needed the, I just needed her I needed to know who my grandpappy was I needed to know who my own mawmaw was But I didn’t know I didn’t have no idea Sometimes feeling like a fool Thinking that I was the most stupidest child that walked the earth Nobody taught us anything Got no education Nobody let us have no wisdom They beat the curiosity out of me They beat it out of me They whooped it They knocked it They banged it Slammed it Damned it Damned the curiosity Only going one way down the row and making sure that you kept that row straight Making sure that you kept that row straight Mount Meigs, Alabama Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children We didn’t get no scholarship We didn’t get no graduate degree But all that information is still within me All of that information At 71 years old and I still think of that day The days and days and days and more days on top of the days Picture me being there Picture me being there In Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children
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Written by: Garret Lee, Lonnie Holley
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