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No Diamond Ring

He held his baby as she creid
He beheld her baby as she died
He knew from wrong and he knew from right
And that baby’s skin was a shade too white (just a shade too white)
He knew no court would see him through
But he knew just what he had to do

Crept from the quarters by the full moon light (by the full moon light)
With a bailin’ hook and a cookin’ knife (steel blade cookin’ knife)
The good book said he shouldn’t do
But the woman in the swamp said a thing or two
What spirit was a-guidin’ him
To the master’s house by the moonlight dim

CAUSE MOSES COULDN'T BUY NO DIAMOND RING

The house slaves they just let him by (let him walk on by)
When they saw that hook and the look in his eye (cold dead look in his eye)
Didn’t need no light in the house you know
Cause Moses was aflame with a strangely glow
No door nor floorboard made a creak
As he stood o’er massah fast asleep

CAUSE MOSES COULDN'T BUY NO DIAMOND RING

Stood there for an hour or more…
The wicked man resting safe and sure…
Moses couldn’t run with a foot cut off
And any dozen white folks’d string him aloft
Livin' or dyin’ it was all the same…(LIVIN’ OR DYING’ IT WAS ALL THE SAME!)
Moses raised that hook to his baby’s name

CAUSE MOSES COULDN'T BUY NO DIAMOND RING

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from Where The Heather Don't Grow, released April 1, 2008

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