Harriet Tubman's Ballard-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Harriet Tubman's Ballard] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:The Woody Guthrie Story (The Music)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Harriet Tubman's Ballard - Woody Guthrie [00:04.15]I was five years old in Bucktown Maryland [00:09.07] [00:10.40]When into slavery I was sent [00:14.71] [00:16.56]I'll tell you of the beatings and of the fighting [00:23.00]In my ninety-three years I've spent [00:25.71] [00:28.39]I helped a field hand make a run for freedom [00:33.09] [00:33.97]When my fifteenth year was rolling round [00:39.70] [00:40.67]And the guard he caught him in a little store [00:45.29] [00:46.31]In a little slavery village town [00:50.81] [00:52.90]The boss made a grab to catch the field hand [00:57.51] [00:59.02]I jumped in and blocked the door [01:04.22] [01:05.07]The boss he hit me with a two pound scale iron [01:10.45] [01:11.14]And I went black down on the floor [01:15.80] [01:18.04]On a bundle of rags in our log cabin [01:23.38] [01:24.24]My mother she ministered unto my needs [01:30.33] [01:31.57]It was here I swore I'd give my life blood [01:37.32] [01:37.83]Just to turn my people free [01:42.97] [01:44.56]In '44 I married John Tubman [01:49.98] [01:50.66]Well I loved him well till '49 [01:55.54] [01:56.59]But he would not come and fight beside me [02:02.13] [02:02.89]So I left him there behind [02:07.86] [02:08.69]I left Bucktown with my two brothers [02:13.40] [02:14.63]But they got scared and run back home [02:20.73] [02:21.47]I followed my northern star of freedom [02:27.95]I walked the grass and trees alone [02:32.25] [02:33.22]I slept in a barn loft and in a haystack [02:38.49]I slept with my people in slavery shacks [02:42.77] [02:44.18]They said I'd die by the boss man's bullets [02:49.79] [02:51.11]But I told them I can't turn back [02:55.11] [02:57.59]The sun was shining in the early morning [03:03.16] [03:04.56]When I come to my free state line [03:10.38] [03:11.24]I pinched myself to see if I was dreaming [03:17.41] [03:18.25]I just could not believe my eyes [03:22.85] [03:28.15]I went back home and I got my parents [03:32.83] [03:34.04]I loaded them into a buckboard hack [03:38.94] [03:40.75]We crossed six states and other slaves followed [03:46.04] [03:46.76]Up to Canada made our tracks [03:50.23] [03:52.35]One slave got scared and he tried to turn backwards [03:57.24] [03:58.26]I pulled my pistol in front of his eyes [04:03.56] [04:05.03]I said get up and walk to your freedom [04:10.53] [04:11.84]Or by this fireball you will die [04:17.23] [04:18.57]When John Brown hit them at Harper's Ferry [04:24.61] [04:25.35]My men was fighting right by his side [04:31.23] [04:32.11]When John Brown swung upon his gallows [04:38.43] [04:39.62]It's then I hung my head and cried [04:43.77] [04:45.39]Give the black man guns and give him powder [04:51.98] [04:52.62]To Abe Lincoln this I said: [04:57.89] [04:59.18]You've just crippled that snake of slavery [05:04.85] [05:06.93]We've got to fight to kill him dead [05:11.69] [05:13.90]When we faced the guns of lightning [05:19.03] [05:19.58]And the thunders broke our sleep [05:25.32] [05:26.26]After we waded the bloody rainstorms [05:32.29]It was dead men that we reaped [05:36.46] [05:37.69]Yes we faced the zigzag lightning [05:43.51]But it was worth the price we paid [05:48.33] [05:49.28]When our thunder had rumbled over [05:54.85]We'd laid slavery in its grave [06:00.20] [06:02.54]Come now and stand around my deathbed [06:08.17] [06:09.21]And I will sing some spirit songs [06:15.51] [06:16.77]I'm on my way to my greater union [06:23.47] [06:24.10]Now my ninety-three years are gone