Underground/Unity by Griot B Lyrics
Swing Low sweet chariot
This plantation ain't home it’s more of a Marriott
A place where you’re staying for a while this is temporary
But checking out early can lead to your obituary
This is scary!
Running away is a pricey game of tag. If you get caught
They’ll tag your back with about a thousand lashes
Quarter you, horses stretch you out like elastic
Feed you to dogs you’ll be eaten by mastiffs
This ain't no easy choice, no paper or plastic
Your future is a mystery you don’t know what will happen
You’ve never seen Canada, you don’t know if it’s true
Is it a land of milk and honey like Canaan to the Jews?
They found freedom in that land, will you?
Or will you get stuck
Tryna reach that honey, Winnie Pooh
But give you liberty or give you death
Your freedom is more than worth it
The train’s coming to carry you home you got to board it
You’ve been feigning of your freedom for a while
Dreaming and then scheming on the how
Alarm ringing get up and get out
Freedom’s to the north get out the south
Peg leg Joe gave you the map out his mouth
“Follow the Drinking Gourd”
Drinking gourd, that’s the Big Dipper
Quail calls in winter so you follow that river
See a dead tree picture, peg and foot run quicker
Your traveling with her, been a long time coming
And that song y’all humming while
You’re running, you’re running
With Tubman, with Tubman
You’re running, you’re running
With Tubman, with Tubman
They’re coming, they’re coming!
You’re running, you’re running
With Tubman, with Tubman
You’re running, you’re running
They coming, they coming
You’re running, you’re running
With Tubman, with Tubman
You’re running they’re coming!
You’re running they’re coming!
Wade in the water
Wade in the water children
Wade in the water
God’s gonna trouble the water
Log cabin quilt, red square in the middle;
That’s a safe houses, that’s a safe house
You see a lantern lit or hear spirituals on fiddles
That’s a safe house, that’s a safe house go on in
The owner’s white but he’s an abolitionist
John parker told you this, helped hide Henry Bibb
A white man without a whip, you ain't used to this
You pray you’re not Sampson and he’s Delilah
You pray you’re not his prey as your sitting at his fire
If Sojourner Truth be told if he was Judas you’d be sold
But Tubman trusts him (is) all you need to know
Sunset it’s time to go!
Your Will Still strong
But there’s danger out there on freedom’s road
Eight months traveling station to station
You’ve waded in the water, freedoms your destination
In the North you’re a fugitive so slave patrol chasing
You got no papers and their coming
That’s why Tubman got a gun and
You’re running, you’re running
With Tubman, with Tubman
You’re running, you’re running
With Tubman, with Tubman
They’re coming, they’re coming!
You’re running, you’re running
With Tubman, with Tubman
You’re running, you’re running
They coming, they coming
You’re running, you’re running
With Tubman, with Tubman
You’re running they’re coming!
You’re running they’re coming!
Harriet Tubman didn’t take no stuff
Wasn’t scared of nothing neither
Didn’t come in this world to be no slave
And wasn’t going to stay one either
Nineteen times she went back south
To get three hundred others
She ran for her freedom nineteen times
To save Black sisters and brothers
Harriet Tubman didn’t take no stuff
Wasn’t scared of nothing neither
She had help on her missions to save her people
And they weren’t scared of nothing neither
UNITY. UNITY that’s a Unity
UNITY. UNITY that’s a Unity
I know I don’t know what it’s like to be black
But empathy got me King dreaming walking in your shoes
I won’t apologize for being a different color
But In Living Color’s Carrey had me laughing along with you
I won’t ignore the news of this
I wanna help you have views of the 6
I’ll put my life at risk, ‘cus you put your life at risk
I’ll raise money, hide you here. Your courage I admire it
I’m an engineer on the Underground Railroad
Come and board this train, have Love, Peace in your Soul
John Brown, he’s invited to the cookout
William Lloyd Garrison invited to the cookout
H. Beecher Stowe yeah she’s coming to the cookout
Lucretia Mott? Fo Sho! She’s coming to the cookout
Cookout is an event for melanted skin
Exclusive in its nature you need invites to get in
You can get an invitation by making
Contributions to the movement
By your statements or your steps that you’re taking
Or by proving, you’re on the side of justice for all lives
As an ally through your actions
Or through your vocation
There’s a lot of words in that
But basically you ain't Black
But you still got our back!
At the cookout we’re eating, grilled chicken
Soy links for you vegans, we’re drinking
White tear tea with Brown sugar sweetening
For desert sweet potato pie and red velvet cake
At night we got projectors shining on the stage
We’re eating Ben and Jerry’s while were watching Luke Cage!
Switch to Jerry Rice catching Kaeperinick’s fade
Freedom riders yeah they coming to the cookout
Jane Elliot yeah she’s coming to the cookout
No slave owner ever coming to the cookout
And if you don’t give us freedom, you better look out
This plantation ain't home it’s more of a Marriott
A place where you’re staying for a while this is temporary
But checking out early can lead to your obituary
This is scary!
Running away is a pricey game of tag. If you get caught
They’ll tag your back with about a thousand lashes
Quarter you, horses stretch you out like elastic
Feed you to dogs you’ll be eaten by mastiffs
This ain't no easy choice, no paper or plastic
Your future is a mystery you don’t know what will happen
You’ve never seen Canada, you don’t know if it’s true
Is it a land of milk and honey like Canaan to the Jews?
They found freedom in that land, will you?
Or will you get stuck
Tryna reach that honey, Winnie Pooh
But give you liberty or give you death
Your freedom is more than worth it
The train’s coming to carry you home you got to board it
You’ve been feigning of your freedom for a while
Dreaming and then scheming on the how
Alarm ringing get up and get out
Freedom’s to the north get out the south
Peg leg Joe gave you the map out his mouth
“Follow the Drinking Gourd”
Drinking gourd, that’s the Big Dipper
Quail calls in winter so you follow that river
See a dead tree picture, peg and foot run quicker
Your traveling with her, been a long time coming
And that song y’all humming while
You’re running, you’re running
With Tubman, with Tubman
You’re running, you’re running
With Tubman, with Tubman
They’re coming, they’re coming!
You’re running, you’re running
With Tubman, with Tubman
You’re running, you’re running
They coming, they coming
You’re running, you’re running
With Tubman, with Tubman
You’re running they’re coming!
You’re running they’re coming!
Wade in the water
Wade in the water children
Wade in the water
God’s gonna trouble the water
Log cabin quilt, red square in the middle;
That’s a safe houses, that’s a safe house
You see a lantern lit or hear spirituals on fiddles
That’s a safe house, that’s a safe house go on in
The owner’s white but he’s an abolitionist
John parker told you this, helped hide Henry Bibb
A white man without a whip, you ain't used to this
You pray you’re not Sampson and he’s Delilah
You pray you’re not his prey as your sitting at his fire
If Sojourner Truth be told if he was Judas you’d be sold
But Tubman trusts him (is) all you need to know
Sunset it’s time to go!
Your Will Still strong
But there’s danger out there on freedom’s road
Eight months traveling station to station
You’ve waded in the water, freedoms your destination
In the North you’re a fugitive so slave patrol chasing
You got no papers and their coming
That’s why Tubman got a gun and
You’re running, you’re running
With Tubman, with Tubman
You’re running, you’re running
With Tubman, with Tubman
They’re coming, they’re coming!
You’re running, you’re running
With Tubman, with Tubman
You’re running, you’re running
They coming, they coming
You’re running, you’re running
With Tubman, with Tubman
You’re running they’re coming!
You’re running they’re coming!
Harriet Tubman didn’t take no stuff
Wasn’t scared of nothing neither
Didn’t come in this world to be no slave
And wasn’t going to stay one either
Nineteen times she went back south
To get three hundred others
She ran for her freedom nineteen times
To save Black sisters and brothers
Harriet Tubman didn’t take no stuff
Wasn’t scared of nothing neither
She had help on her missions to save her people
And they weren’t scared of nothing neither
UNITY. UNITY that’s a Unity
UNITY. UNITY that’s a Unity
I know I don’t know what it’s like to be black
But empathy got me King dreaming walking in your shoes
I won’t apologize for being a different color
But In Living Color’s Carrey had me laughing along with you
I won’t ignore the news of this
I wanna help you have views of the 6
I’ll put my life at risk, ‘cus you put your life at risk
I’ll raise money, hide you here. Your courage I admire it
I’m an engineer on the Underground Railroad
Come and board this train, have Love, Peace in your Soul
John Brown, he’s invited to the cookout
William Lloyd Garrison invited to the cookout
H. Beecher Stowe yeah she’s coming to the cookout
Lucretia Mott? Fo Sho! She’s coming to the cookout
Cookout is an event for melanted skin
Exclusive in its nature you need invites to get in
You can get an invitation by making
Contributions to the movement
By your statements or your steps that you’re taking
Or by proving, you’re on the side of justice for all lives
As an ally through your actions
Or through your vocation
There’s a lot of words in that
But basically you ain't Black
But you still got our back!
At the cookout we’re eating, grilled chicken
Soy links for you vegans, we’re drinking
White tear tea with Brown sugar sweetening
For desert sweet potato pie and red velvet cake
At night we got projectors shining on the stage
We’re eating Ben and Jerry’s while were watching Luke Cage!
Switch to Jerry Rice catching Kaeperinick’s fade
Freedom riders yeah they coming to the cookout
Jane Elliot yeah she’s coming to the cookout
No slave owner ever coming to the cookout
And if you don’t give us freedom, you better look out