Jook Songs

Just a young Chinaman tryna sail for foreign land
He couldn't afford to be poor
Thrown from home, brother dead, I'm a fighter but I fled
Could there be any hope left on the shore?

Mm-mm-mm

Who'd have known we'd be placed in a prison for our race?
A cage in the ocean made of wood
Summer days turned to fall, sliced a knife into the wall
Mournful strokes, carving these words

Words that hurt
But the walls still won
Keep our dream in sight
Better life for future sons
Although they're gone, I can still hear them breathing this song:

I keep dreaming of a life in New York City and I
Keep believing for you, and although
All of our voices on the walls can't sing
Listen to me
We're more than just some poems on the wall

Listen to the history, come raise a brazen fist with me
I'll tell it to you quick as we engrave our rage in victory
We are the tired, the refugees, the poor huddled masses who yearn to be free

I'll make it out
Gold Mountain bound
I'll keep them out
Can't stop me now

Keep dreaming
'Cause even in the darkness there is light
Keep believing
And it's true
That through all of the hardship
We've endured so long
There's people like me now

I'm just a jook sing singing jook songs
Singing jook songs
Singing jook songs



Credits
Writer(s): Skyler Chin
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