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angeline morrison - unknown african boy (d.1830) lyrics

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[verse 1]:

oh, my brown arms, they are sad and empty
oh, where, oh, where, is my little son?
he’s stolen away by english slavers
with a cudgel blow and a pointed gun

my riven heart it is wide with sorrow
oh, where, oh, where, is my darling boy?
thrust into a sack with babes and younglings
by slavers in the king’s employ

[chorus]:

[?] my dear babe, where’er you be
may the arms of the ocean be cradle for thee

[verse 2]:

ripped oh so cruel from his loving mother
my darling babe to be bought and sold
his skin rubbed bare by iron shackles
he gulps foul air in the ship’s dank hold

oh, i send my spirit out into the darkness
into stars and the wind and the sea i’ll go
my spirit will fly into earth and water
let a mother’s love [?]
[chorus]:

[?] my dear babe, where’er you be
may the arms of the ocean be cradle for thee

if the sea be your bed, and the waves be your pillow
may the sun in the sky keep you from all harm
the earth is your mother now, dear baby
she will hold you safe in her soft brown arms

[?] my babe, where’er you be
may the arms of the ocean be cradle for thee

oh, earth, cradle my son for me
[?]
oh, earth, cradle my son for me
[?]
oh, earth, cradle my son for me
[?]
oh, earth, cradle my son for me

- angeline morrison lyrics

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