What have you seen in your short long life

Where did your tiny feet roam

All the things you have done on top of being a wife

A mother

A daughter

A home (Home)

What have you seen in your short long life

What has your heart overcome

The traditional ways that are hidden away

Can be revived by the beat of a drum

(Drum)

What have you seen in your short long life

What it did your tiny hands do (What did those tiny hands do)

Stretching, scrapping, fixing and making

Blending the skins that our souls fit within

Stitching nothing can undo

What did those tiny hands do?

What have you seen in your short long life

What has your heart overcome

The traditional ways that are hidden away

Can be revived by the beat of a drum

What have you seen in your short long life

The witness to so many wrongs

Relocation, damnation, and misinformation

Summation, our nation still strong

(Strong)

What have you heard in your short long life

When did they silence your voice

The stories they spun made you swallow you tongue

Made you feel like it was it was your choice

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What have you seen in short long life

What has your heart overcome

The traditional ways that that are hidden away

Can be revived by the beat of the drum

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