MAGNOLIA TREE

Under the magnolia tree,
Come meet Mary and me.
We’ll go running through the rushes
To the Buerkle family.
We’ll keep together
And when the time is right,
We’ll slip in the Mississippi
Undercover of the night.

Wade in the water
These chains'll slip away
We'll rise again on the banks
Of a brand new day

Under the magnolia tree,
Come meet Mary and me.
Don’t you hear Moses whisper
‘Bout your slavery,
“I would’ve freed more slaves,
I would have freed you all -
But you don’t know you’re slaves."
Do you hear her call?

Hush a bye,
Hush a bye baby.
Don’t you cry,
Don’t you cry baby.
Hush a bye
Just roll with the rockin’.
Sleep like Lazarus
'Til the angels come knockin’.

Under the magnolia tree,
Come meet Mary and me.
Don’t you hear Moses say,
“You got to fight to be free.
Be free or die,
From what’s got you in chains.
Help your brothers and your sisters
To find their own way.”