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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.

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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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from In The Ruins They've Left Us, We'll Plant Gardens Still, released December 23, 2020
Vocals: Jessica Garraway
Banjo: Emmett Doyle
Bass and Guitar: R Young
Accordion: Sam Adams

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