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[Didn't Come in This World to Be No Slave]

[Harriet Tubman by Eloise Greenfield]

Harriet Tubman didn’t take no stuff
Wasn’t scared of nothing neither
Didn’t come in this world to be no slave
And wasn’t going to stay one either

“Farewell!” she sang to her friends one night
She was mighty sad to leave ‘em
But she ran away that dark, hot night
Ran looking for her freedom
She ran to the woods and she ran through the woods
With the slave catchers right behind her
And she kept on going till she got to the North
Where those mean men couldn’t find her

Nineteen times she went back South
To get three hundred others
She ran for her freedom nineteen times
To save Black sisters and brothers
Harriet Tubman didn’t take no stuff
Wasn’t scared of nothing neither
Didn’t come in this world to be no slave
And didn’t stay one either

And didn’t stay one either

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[Harriet Tubman as Lady Liberty by tclightsy
(of https://tclightsy.wordpress.com/]
Mr_Mindblank
Mr_Mindblank: This reads like a folk hero song.
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paganpoetry: I found a fun book of poetry about feisty females in history, or herstory. Women who are "More Spice than Sugar" and this was one of them. I was reading them to a younger relative but man, I really enjoyed them myself. I needed some heroines to pump me up....been feelin so unhero like,...........
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