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4​-​11​-​2008 (Chicago Lady)

from Bend by Jasper Slaghuis

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4-11-2008 (Chicago lady)

They had just finished saying grace when she saw the men outside her house
After they’d shot her father and brother they lit it up and burned it to the ground
She banished all her anger and hate that night
Since there wasn’t nothing that would ever make it right
Instead she took the first train north and left her past behind

A lady on the Chicago streets tonight.

Now she and her man ran into hard times but a colored man could never get no loan
So he and some friends they turned to theft
To feed the hungry mouths they had back home
Well the cops they caught him on one of his nights out
She rode the back of the city bus to bail him out
She buried all of her tears that night ‘cause there was nothing left to say

A lady on the Chicago streets today.

But tonight she’ll put her best dress on, tonight she’s going out
Tonight she’ll bring her tears and hurt, she’s gonna let it all out
‘Cause tomorrow this might all be a dream
But she don’t care tonight

They put a black man in the white house tonight.

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from Bend, released February 21, 2015

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