Yes - He turned and he walked
Past the eyes of my life.
And, he nodded and sang without sound.
And his face had the look
Of a man who knew strife
And a feeling familiarly came around.
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I said,
Man, where have you been for all these years
Man, where were you when I sought you
Man, am I coming through
And, he spoke in a voice
That was centuries old.
And, be smiled in a way that was strange.
And, his full lips of night
Spoke about our people's plight
And a feeling familiarly came around.
REFRAIN:
And, we sat and we talked
About freedom and things.
And, he told me about what he dreamed.
But I knew of that dream
Long before he had spoke
And a feeling familiarly came around.
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Source:
The Black Panther newspaper, April 27, 1969.
The text can also be found in Philip S. Foner's,
The Black Panthers Speak (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1970), p. xxx.