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My Thirty Thousand

Billy Bragg

Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions

2012

Paul Robeson, he's the man
That faced the Ku Klux Klan
On hollow grove's golfing ground
His words come sounding

And all around him there

The gritty side of life
I'ma need a wife who knows
Reality from what they write i'm hoping
I could become the new Paul Robeson
Chosen, for rapping, directing

see what I mean-a

I've planted
Big Rainbow German Johnson Garden peach Granadero
Paul Robeson Black trifle Green Giant German Lunchbox
Amarillo Hanover

an avalanche
Breakin' branches of green
Every chance he got
Sword swing, like that old king from Camelot
Voice like Paul Robeson
Wit' a Mayweather robe

de Milo
My blood is different than the blood that you bleed if it's yellow
I'm colder than Paul Robeson leadin' Othello
I'm older than the barcode,

violence so they quick to silence
Any nigga pushing self reliance for the Black man
Slank, I map plans cartography
Reading Paul Robeson's biography like Here

miso
The lyric is my instrument, I've been known to dabble in
Grabbing the inspiration from the basement of my abdomen
The last Paul Robeson
Used to love

outspoken
A lot of growing up I was known as the token
Black kid but I got wiser n' woke and
Realized NJ made the great Paul Robeson
Rock the crowd like Bon

High-priced pipes like Leontyne
Big tenor Paul Robeson on Creatine 
We got pitt seats 
Double dating with two chicks from Pitt Street
Separate Ubers 
King

we be gettin it
I aint tryin sound cocky but you know I'm gunna rep
6823 and you know we gon rec
Marching up to Paul Robeson with 40s on da belt
Tore

Last night I met Paul Robeson
He spoke softly by my bed
He whispered of our values
And those who paid for them
I said "but you're among them now"
In

we be gettin it
I aint tryin sound cocky but you know I'm gunna rep
6823 and you know we gon rec
Marching up to Paul Robeson with 40s on da belt
Tore

of the world
And I'll find you in Houston can't let him hurt you like they did
Paul Robeson the devil is real and I saw what he's cooking
He entered my dream,

a Renaissance. I aint talking about Di Vinci 1920. 1920, black arts came-a-plenty. 
Let's learn about the people; let's learn about the Negros 
Paul Robeson he's

to Coltrane watching Malcolm X
Power to Paul Robeson under house-arrest
Power to Galileo under house-arrest
Power to Ibn Haytham under house-arrest
Forgive me

Writings On Disobedience And Democracy

Vinnie Paz

The Cornerstone of the Corner Store

2016

all he wanted was protection
There was other black men that made the same connection
Benjamin Davis defended Herndon as a savior
Then Paul Robeson