I Want to Go

Photo by Doug Mills

I Want to Go

Walkin’ to Washington
I want to go

to file past a Lady
who had the courage to say no

Inspiration sometimes comes from a simple place
that time it came from a seamstress
with a beautiful tired face...
tired of being a second-class race

Enough was just too much
so she balked and such…
got carried off to jail
...started us all to wail

Walkin’ to Washington
I want to go
I want to see that Lady
before she has to go

Walkin’ to Washington
to get in that line
I need to pay to her
these respects of mine...

I cannot go
but in my mind

I am standing in that line...