Wasn't no copperhead Wasn't no cottonmouth Just a garden snake That brought us all down It didn't look deadly Didn't look venomous Wrapped around that tree So l...

A child of three Reaches out to touch And only sees Pretty powder puffs Down the road A black child plays But the dreams he holds lie A cotton field away The f...

Shadows fall Across the land Prophets say The end's at hand More bad news Everywhere I turn But in your arms It's a perfect world Rebels rage And lions roar Ev...

Brother Joseph Was a simple man Collected rubbish For his building plans Alabama clay Shells from the sea Broken china plates And rosary beads Ave Maria Ave Ma...

Be Thou my Vision O Lord of my heart Naught be All else to me Save that Thou art Thou my best thought By day or by night Waking or sleeping Thy presence my ligh...

Four little girls Dressed up nice Singing about Jesus Red and yellow Black and white Dreaming of freedom Across the land And all God's children Walking hand in ...

He lived his life A civil service man Designing toilets For the space program He believed If we could go to the moon There's nothing on Earth A man can't do So...

They forced it On the county school board And made a lot people mad They planned to bus Us off across town And things got really bad That's when The private sc...

Saw the mark Of a Pharaoh's hand In the middle Of a field of sand Seven wonders Have come and gone Only one's Still hanging on Watched a man In sixty-nine Take...

I heard Odessa's mind was sick That she was crazier than hell The police caught her turning tricks Down at the Blue and Gray motel Odessa was the neighbor's mai...

You can pray with all your might Till your knuckles all turn white You can look the other way Hope it's gone with each new day You can do your best to hide You...

Rust hills Red clay Steel mills Deep tang Lime stone Iron veins Loose coal Deep tang Birmingham Birmingham Beneath the haze Your skies once blue Now deep tang...

Delmus Jackson was a black man Delmus Jackson was a custodian He cleaned the church house Five days a week Delmus Jackson talked to me He'd say I'm working for...

I see faces in the water Of a time not gone by I see places in the water Where so many souls won't die I hear babies and their mothers Crying Lord, oh lord why ...

Every night It's the same routine He has some hurting He's got to do Sets up a shrine To her memory So he can Fade to blue He takes her picture From its hiding...

I'm going out Into the free world And farm I'm gonna paint me A big red barn Don't wanna do Nobody else no harm I'm going out I'm going out Into the free world...

Moses stood On the mountain Looked over To the promised land Took his people Through the valley Said I hope You understand I may not get There with you Keep on...

Aunt Fidelia Brought the rolls With her Green bean casserole The widow Smith Down the street Dropped by a bowl Of butter beans Plastic cups And silverware Lime ...

We got her white From the factory But daddy had her Painted baby blue She had A red vinyl interior That burned my legs On summer afternoons She took us Down to ...

They say God Walked in the garden Between the Tigris And Euphrates They say God Walked in the garden Between the tigris And Euphrates But we all know that Eden ...

God of grace and God of glory On Thy people pour Thy power Crown Thine ancient church's story Bring her bud to glorious flower Grant us wisdom, grant us courage...

The story is told Strange as it sounds In Louisiana A turtle fell From the clouds Some just believe Some only doubt And some proclaim They've got it all Figured...

Heard about a man From Birmingham Went down to Selma To take a stand How much Can one heart hold He sang some songs About peace and love And took a beatin' From...

If I ever get to heaven Don't know what I'll find Maybe streets of gold Maybe peace of mind Will there be water Will there be wine Milk and honey On the other s...

Photographs And old forty-fives Stowed beneath A homecoming gown Pictures of me At sweet sixteen But everything's Not as it seems In my mother's house When I g...

I bought a pack of seeds Tennessee Bradleys The best homegrown you'll find How it happened I don't know Must've been the Miracle-Gro Oh, I could not believe my ...

Jesus Christ was a man Who traveled through the land A hard working man and brave He said to the rich Give your goods to the poor But they laid Jesus Christ in ...

I've got a coffee table Made of mahogany With cigarette burns And water rings But that don't bother me I bought it at an auction Ten years ago I put my feet up...

How many times Have I stood By the river And could not see To the other side Hoping like moses The clouds Would be lifted Stretch out my hand The waters divide ...

It sounded like a thousand hooves Running 'cross the plains It felt like an earthquake When I first saw your face You were standing like a rock And suddenly I k...

I can still recall the night Lightning burned the mansion down We all stood in out pajamas On that hallowed southern ground When the flames had turned to ashes ...

Lord help The poor and needy In this land In this land Lord help The poor and needy In this land In this land When we all Rise together And face The rising sun ...

No one up here seems to know me And I don't like the ones that do Everyone is as cold as the weather It's time to buy some traveling shoes I don't need to pack ...

After the supper was over and the table had been Cleared away When the last bottle was empty, there was nothing much Left to say Jesus started humming an old tu...

The fairest skies I've ever seen Were in your eyes the day we met The wind was hard and full of rain A storm I never will forget It came on fast and caught us b...

Stars fell on Alabama Near the rocky shoals In a casket factory Where they found the soul See that skinny boy there Drinking him a Coke Didn't we just see him ...

Thomas passed away last June And I'll be following him soon Junior will be left here all alone Oh how it worries me so Jesus sent him to us late An angel to br...