Our Native Daughters feat. Amythyst Kiah, Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla & Allison Russell - Songs of Our Native Daughters

Black Myself

I wanna jump the fence and wash my face in the creek
But I'm black myself
I wanna sweep that gal right off her feet
But I'm black myself
Tired of walkin' 'round with no shoes on
But I'm black myself
Your precious God ain't gonna bless me
'Cause I'm black myself

Is you washed in the blood of your chattel?
'Cause the lamb's rotted away
When they stopped shipping work horses
Bred your own anyway

I don't pass the test of the paper bag
'Cause I'm black myself
I pick the banjo up and they stare at me
'Cause I'm black myself
You better lock your doors when I walk by
'Cause I'm black myself
You look me in my eyes, but you don't see me
'Cause I'm black myself

They're washed in the blood of the chattel
'Cause the lamb's rotted away
When they stopped shipping work horses
They bred their own anyway

I don't creep around, I stand proud and free
'Cause I'm black myself
I go anywhere that I wanna go
'Cause I'm black myself
I'm surrounded many lovin' arms
'Cause I'm black myself
And I'll stand my ground and smile in your face
'Cause I'm black myself

I washed away my blood and tears
I've been born brand new
There's no more work horses
But there's still work to do

'Cause I'm black myself (black myself)
'Cause I'm black myself (black myself)
'Cause I'm black myself (black myself)
'Cause I'm black myself
Black my, black my, black myself

Credits
Writer(s): Amythyst Kiah
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link

Other Album Tracks

All Album Tracks: Songs of Our Native Daughters >

Rockol

Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.

Feedback

Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.