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I Grew Up (Kate’s Place)
I took the train up to Harlem
Dressed to the nines, a spring afternoon
Going to the Apollo
Hear all that jazz, and some down-home blues
Nina, Sarah, and Ella
Duke and Basie would swing, that’s a fact
Jackie, Smokey, and Marvin
BB and Satchmo never walked through the back
I Grew Up!
With a people who believed in heard work
I Grew Up!
Never heard them use the N-word
I Grew Up!
Stood on the shoulders where I learned how
to give
Yes, Harlem is the place I live
A jukebox sat in the corner
Your favorite tune, would play while you danced
Afro hair “Right on Brother”
Platform shoes, Motown grooves gangster hats
Doo-wop groups on the corner
Girls double-dutch, and man they could twist
Buy a deuce-and-quarter
Play a number, you hope that it hits
I Grew Up!
With a people who believed in heard work
I Grew Up!
Never heard them use the N-word
I Grew Up!
Stood on the shoulders where I learned how
to give
Yes, Harlem is the place I live
Now I see folks are rapping
Lay down those beats, sample some tracks
But Malcolm said from the pulpit
Better learn how your rhythms are jacked
Folks stepped off the plantation
A place of pain where our families were sold
Oh miss Tubman, she saved some
Robert Smith - says there’s still far to go
I Grew Up!
With a people who believed in heard work
I Grew Up!
Never heard them use the N-word
I Grew Up!
Stood on the shoulders where I learned how
to give
Yes, Harlem is the place I live
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ONE MORE NOTCH
Allan Harris
MANY TOWNS MANY FACES
SEEM TO MELT INTO ONE
I MADE A NAME FOR MYSELF
AT THE END OF A GUN
I’VE PLAYED THIS PART OH SO LONG
O NOW BELIEVE IT MYSELF
I WATCHED THE CLOCK
ONE MORE NOTCH
HE CALLED ME OUT A NOON
JUST A KID DRESSED IN BLACK
IN LESS THAN AN HOUR
HE’LL BE DEAD IN HIS TRACKS
WHEELS OF FAITH ARE IN MOTION
A TRAGIC PLAY IN REVERSE
I WATCHED THE CLOCK
ONE MORE NOTCH
OH WHAT A LONELY ROAD
THE WINTERS HAVE COME AND GONE
I’VE SEEN SO MANY THINGS
THINGS THAT I CAN’T EXPLAIN
I WAS ONCE ONE AND MAD
NOW YOU SEE I’M THA LAST OF A BREED
PLEASE LOOK AT ME
IF HE WOULD ONLY LISTEN
I’D SAY PIT DOWN YOUR GUN
YOUR YOUNG AND FULL OF PROMISE
DON’T LIVE YOUR LIFE ON THE RUN
HIS EYE’S JUST LOOKED THROUGH ME
I KNOW HOW THIS CHAPTER ENDS
I WATCHED THE CLOCK
ONE MORE NOTCH
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WASH AWAY MY SINS
Went down to the river
To wash away my sins
Tried speaking to the one above
If there’s a heaven would you let me in
Gonna jump in these waters
Let the river just take me away
Then I heard her voice a calling
Said I love you don’t do this thing
For I need you & I want you
I’m your woman and you’re my man
I’ll always be your guiding light
I hope that you’ll understand
Why it’s no use in sharing love
If were left with doubt and fear
Together we’ll wash all those sins away
Let them drown in our falling tears
Didn’t know where I was going
Didn’t care where I had been
Then the stars smiled down upon me
There you were and my life began
We were blessed with a ring of love
It circled us every day
She said a part of us has gone and died
Said ya better live another day
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Open Up
Let your soul bath in the sunlight of other's
Open Up
Let our hearts become one
Make this a better place for your brother
Open Up
You can't do it on your own
So let's do it all together
Open Up
The world is filled with love as you will soon discover
I can't speak for my neighbor or my friends
But this feeling comes from deep within
I have found the key in my short a wondrous life
That we all have the gift of love but understanding
it takes time so Open Up
Segregation, Aggravation
Everybody’s knows this is a
love nation
Put Your hearts together and you
will find
Life is good when you
open your mind
I’ve travelled far I’ve travelled
wide
The universe will decide
here to decide
Material things get left behind
So seek the truth and Open Up
Your Mind
Open Up
Lift our hearts to the sky and let the love flow like wine
Open Up
Love is the fruit of mankind but we must pick it from the
vine
Open Up
The time is growing near but the answers are so clear
Open Up
With love there is no fear cause your brother be your
mirror
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Shallow Man
Living in a City that has changed my mind
Leaving all the problems that I had behind
I’m a soldier
Never moved this slow
Gotta march in time to what I know
Picking up the pieces of a broken dream
All the plans I made turned out to be just schemes
And Illusion
Was a shallow man
Drifting through my life without a plan
Like sand my thoughts slip through
the hour glass of time
A lonely heart can only break a
troubled mind
The bird of paradise I seek
I hope to find find
The truth is what I need
Reality is just a dream
Stepping over boundaries to the wide unknown
Never had a thought that I could call my own
Had a vision
So I change my ways
No more standing still with feet of clay
Take away the promise of a brighter day
You will see the answers written on my face
There’s a method
To my madness
That I always tried to hide away
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Color of a Woman is Blue
Give her perfume
When she’s feeling lonely
Send her roses
When she’s far from view
But whisper in her ear
I love you love you dear
For the color of a woman is blue
She will tell you by the way
that she carries her head
That her long day didn’t turn out so well
So release all her fears
with I love you love you dear
For the color of a woman is Blue
Cause it only takes a moment to love her
Yet a lifetime to understand all her moods
So whisper in her ear
I love you love you dear
For the color of a woman is blue
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99 Miles
04:48
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99 Miles
99 miles from Atlanta Georgia
Got one thing on my mind
Two whole weeks on this lonely road
Lord knows I've served my time
Gonna pull in the driveway
Pop on the 'mergency
Jump like a frog on the porch
Take a long hot bath
and a shot of tequila
Hear the sound of my sweet baby's voice
Been a lotta long years of scrapin and a scufflin
but time has proved us well
We might not have a lot of frills and tassles
but Lord knows we've had ourselves
I say its back to the basics
We're at our best
That's how we started out
We had love then and we have love now
and that's what we're all about
Just put out the dog and redd up the house
Cause the last two weeks have been hell
I'll be in the city by 11:00 o'clock
She knows to expect me by 12:00
Now there ain't too many jobs
For the working class hero
I gotta do the best that I can
They can stop me from working
But they can't stop the lovin
That happens between a woman and a man
There were times when I'd wake up
In the dark of the night
And watched as you slept in our bed
The room was so cold no food in the freezer
Tears welled up in my head
Now I've been a lot of places
Seen a lot of faces
She smiles when she walks by my side
If there's one thing I'd do over again
I'd ask her to be my wife
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Autumn Has Found You
04:20
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AUTUMN
Autumn has found you
drifting like the leaves
You'll soon be falling
in love again again with me
Winter has claimed you
Your heart gets so cold
I want to warm you
It's time to let love glow
The rites of spring decent on you
The ides of march will see us through
As we float into summers glare
I pray you'll still care
Autumn determines
Should our love be whole
Another season we have the reason
for love to take hold
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New Day
05:23
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A NEW DAY
I see a Blue Bird singing in her window
It’s a bright and sunny morning
She wakes up to its song that reminds her
How wonderful life can be
Hear a dog barking loud in the front yard
He wants to play with the children
They are running and laughing and just being happy
Playing hide and seek
It’s a new day and a new way
To start a new life
But you have to believe it
That you are worth it and your purpose
Is to follow the path that love will help you see
It’s a new day and a new way
To start a new life
But you have to conceive it
Time is precious don’t ya waste it
Trust in love you’ll find your dreams
A man slowly shuffles pass her front yard
Oh his heart is a grieving
Angels called from above took the one that he loved
On a soft and gentle Breeze
Watched the kids with the dog heard the bird sing his song
And he said.. What the hell does it all mean
Then he soon saw her face and a feeling of grace
Sparked that ember inside his buried dream
It’s a new day and a new way
For you to start a new life
But you have to believe it
That you are worth it and your purpose
Is to follow the path that love will help you see
It’s a new day and a new way
To start a new life
But you have to conceive it
Time is precious don’t ya waste it
Trust in love you’ll find your dreams
Spinning round in space in the unknown
Like dervishes we spin round and round
But the Universe is just a reflection
Of why we need each other
Discover love together
The Blue birds still singing in the window
It’s a bright and sunny morning
Wakes them up with a song that remind’s them
How wonderful life can be
Now a new born’s playing in the front yard
They were two but now are three
He has found that spark placed it in her heart
It’s more than just a dream
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Run Through America
05:06
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RUN THROUGH AMERICA
He went for a run
In a sleepy Georgia town
Thought he was safe
But they gunned Ahmaud down
Where ya gonna go
From the land that we love
They say “Run Nigger Run through America”
Sleeping in a bed
With her man late at night
Killed in the hallway
They shot Breonna eight times
Where ya gonna go
From the land that we love
They say “Run Nigger Run through America”
We’re tired of singing tired of praying
It’s hard to believe
They have never felt our pain
A revolution for restitution
Let’s take to the streets
And shout out their names
Watching them birds
Chris was down in Central Park
White woman said
“I’m gonna go and call the cops”
Where ya gonna go
From the land that we love
They say “Run Nigger run through America”
Yelled for his mama
With a knee on his neck
Cried out for mercy
But they killed George Floyd instead
Where ya gonna go
From the land that we love
They say “Run Nigger Run through America”
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Allan Harris New York, New York
Allan Harris has established himself as one of the jazz world's most acclaimed vocalists, possessing a potent combination of dynamic vocal abilities, impeccable phrasing, and powerful emotional resonance.
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