Composer: Caroline Randall Williams, Claude Kelly, Charles Harmon
Lyrics
This an American story
A fists up story
An our power story
I've read
I'll write this blues story
I'm talking a high low story
Uptown to down home
An old new story
Kunta to Kendrick
A turned up
Stripped down
soundboard and guit-box
You heard what I said
This here is the call
This here is the work
This work is the joy
And by joy I mean chance
To show how we stay woke
And stay fresh live past death
We so strong we survive off the sound
We make
When we tell
Our story
Caroline Williams, Charles Harmon, Claude Kelly
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