Following last year’s excellent socio-cultural Black History-themed album Black Rainbows, the Leeds-born singer-songwriter returns with a bright. sparkling funk-pop track stemming from a dark subject – set before the Tulsa race massacre, a two-day racial massacre which resulted in the deaths of 150-200 Black Americans Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Known as ‘Black Wall Street’, Greenwood was a wealthy district of an oil town at the turn of the 20th century, with 600 Black businesses, including hotels, a bus company, restaurants, 21 churches, a hospital and post office. Several prominent families even owned private planes - and this song celebrates Greenwood before this terrible event. The destruction of Greenwood came in 1921 with a well-documented enactment of white supremacist violence, the first incidence of domestic firebombing in US history. It foretells future events with a sense of foreboding. To explore and enjoy more by Corinne, see also the other embedded links below.
Hand me down my walking shoes
Hand me down my silver cane
I came all the way from Johnsburg
Arkansas and I won't be back again
I am a Greenwood girl
Here with my best friend, Jane
Sometimes we march in this parade
Sometimes we take our aeroplane
California came back from Paris
With fashion so lavish
Me, I'm happy to live in Greenwood
With no fear, no fear
This is the town I love
We built our own escape
All of the people shout 'hooray'
There will be no more pain
California came back from Paris
With fashion so lavish
Me, I'm happy to live in Greenwood
With no fear, no fear
Hand me down my walking shoes
Hand me down my silver cane
Hand me down my walking shoes
Hand me down my silver cane
Hand me down my walking shoes
Hand me down my silver cane
Hand me down my walking shoes
Hand me down my silver cane
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