Martin Luther King and Others Marching in Selma

Courtesy The Atlantic

Martin

Can you see Martin on the mountaintop?

Can you see him standing tall for justice there?

Brother Martin, you've reached the mountaintop,

you dreamed of--the top of the monumental hill.

I will surely try to join you there, with all my will.

With all my heart and with all my will.

I know it will be a long hard way getting there,

but I will surely try and try.

There is no downside to justice.

So, I will do or die. Do or die.

I'll join you on that mountaintop someday,

when all the brothers come to meet.

Join you on that mountaintop someday,

we won't ever accept defeat.

Marching for Justice

We are marching for justice,

we are marching for justice,

and know it's very far.

But we are on the long road,

and have come so very far.

Still have a ways to go, 

but we know who we are.

We know that we are bound for glory,

we know that we will get there soon.

The obstacles are falling down,

the promised land closer than the moon.

Marching for justice,

marching in your name.

Will get there very soon,

what we’re asking for is no game.

Dedicated to Uriah J. Fields

Civil Rights Pioneer and Chronicler

6/19/20

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