ma sista lutie boun ta go
hope ta meet ya in heaven
ma brotha william boun ta go
hope ta meet ya in heaven
ma uncle johny boun ta go
hope ta meet ya in heaven
ma auntie rubie boun ta go
i hopes ta meet ya in heaven
jesus stoop down
an wore a man's life
he died a man's death
ta free our strife
ma granny addie bell boun ta go
hope ta meet ya in heaven
ma grandpa cogman boun ta go
i hopes ta meet ya in heaven
ma mother ol' rit boun ta go
hope ta meet ya in heaven
know my ol' soul boun ta go
i hopes ta meet ya in heaven
Quaraysh Ali Lansana
They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems, copyright 2004, the author and Third World Press.
