Oh freedom
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Oh, Freedom is a post Civil War African American freedom song.
- Oh-o freedom.
- Oh-o freedom
- Oh freedom over me,
- (Over me.)
- And before I be a slave
- I'll be buried in my grave.
- And go home to my Lord and be free.
- (and be free.)
- No segregation
- No segregation
- No more segregation
- Over me
- (Over me)
- And before I be a slave
- I'll be buried in my grave.
- And go home to my Lord and be free.
- (and be free.)
- No more weepin
- No more weepin
- No more weepin
- Over me
- (Over me)
- And before I be a slave
- I'll be buried in my grave.
- And go home to my Lord and be free.
- (and be free.)
- No more tommin *
- No more tommin
- No more tommin
- Out of me
- (Out of me)
- And before I be a slave
- I'll be buried in my grave.
- And go home to my Lord and be free.
- (and be free.)
- Oh-o freedom.
- Oh-o freedom
- Oh freedom over me,
- (Over me.)
- And before I be a slave
- I'll be buried in my grave.
- And go home to my Lord and be free.
- (and be free.)
Notes
- The word tommin denotes to Black men's extreme submissiveness towards a white person or White people. The word seems to have been derived from Harriet Beecher Stowe's fictitious character Uncle Tom in Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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