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Harriet Tubman

   

by Eloise Greenfield

   
  Harriet Tubman didn’t take no stuff

Wasn’t scared of nothing neither

Didn’t come in this world to be no slave

And wasn’t going to stay on either

 

"Farewell!" she sang to her friends one night

She was mighty sad to leave ‘em

But she ran away that dark, hot night

Ran looking for her freedom

 

She ran to the woods and she ran through the woods

With the slave catchers right behind her

And she kept on going till she got to the North

Where those mean men couldn’t find her

Nineteen times she went back South

To get three hundred others

She ran for her freedom nineteen times

To save Black sisters and brothers

 

Harriet Tubman didn’t take no stuff

Wasn’t scared of nothing neither

Didn’t come in this world to be no slave

And didn’t stay on either

 

And didn’t stay on either

 

  From "Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems" by Eloise Greenfield and illustrated by Diane and Leo Dillion, Harper Trophy, 1978

 

 

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