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Wade In the Water

from Loves You by MADAM WEST

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There has never been a more appropriate time to keep traditional spirituals cycling through our brains. Lest we forget this country is itself cycling through its history of oppression, over and over.

This song is about coming together in a time of difficulty or grief. Finding your nurturers, your true friends. Those that provide you warm, loving kindness, and most of all, give you hope.

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Poor sister, poor soul
Why does your head hang like that?
Go back to your mother, go back to your mother
Come sister, come brother

Wade in the water, wade in the water
Come sister, come brother
Wade in the water, wade in the water

Poor brother, poor boy
Why do your feet drag like that?
Go back to your mother, go back to your mother
Come sister, come brother

These cleansing waters came from long ago
From where we will never know
But these waters will purify you, these waters will purify you

Wade in the water, wade in the water
Come sister, come brother
Wade in the water, wade in the water
Wade in the water...

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from Loves You, released August 1, 2015

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