Enslaved Black women often had to suffer the indignity of raising and attending to the needs of their slave master’s children. While the slave master’s children would be promised all the fine things in life, enslaved children were left to fend for themselves in the fields without the safety and nurturing their mothers desperately wanted to give them, but were violently prevented from providing.This song tells that story.
lyrics
Hush-a-bye, don't you cry
Go to sleep you little baby
When you wake, you shall have
all the pretty little horses
Blacks and bays, dapple and grays
All the pretty little horses
Way down yonder, down in the meadow
Lies my poor little child
bees and butterflies flies are pickin' out its eyes
The poor little child crying mama
Blacks and bays, dapple and grays
All the pretty little horses
Blacks and bays, dapple and grays
All the pretty little horses
Hush-a-bye, don't you cry
Go to sleep you little baby
When you wake, you shall have
all the pretty little horses
Blacks and bays, dapple and grays
All the pretty little horses
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This album has been a powerful mix of hitting home and expanding my horizons. This is great music, both from and for the ongoing fight for universal human dignity. I don't know how he does it, but Emmett has a way of saturating each story he tells - even the ones far removed from his own experience - with a rich feeling of authenticity. Two thumbs up! jwberns
This album speaks to the continuum of African diasporic culture that is central to the vibrant canon of Americana folk music. Bandcamp Album of the Day May 29, 2020
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