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I just thought that I would post these songs here, we went over them in my English class, and I thought they were both good songs, so I'm posting them here.
(Lyrics only)

"Twas down in Mississippi no so long ago, When a young boy from Chicago town stepped through a Southern door. This boy's dreadful tragedy I can still remember well, The color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till. Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up. They said they had a reason, but I can't remember what. They tortured him and did some evil things too evil to repeat. There was screaming sounds inside the barn, there was laughing sounds out on the street. Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain. The reason that they killed him there, and I'm sure it ain't no lie, Was just for the fun of killin' him and to watch him slowly die. And then to stop the United States of yelling for a trial, Two brothers they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till. But on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this awful crime, And so this trial was a mockery, but nobody seemed to mind. I saw the morning papers but I could not bear to see The smiling brothers walkin' down the courthouse stairs. For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free, While Emmett's body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea. If you can't speak out against this kind of thing, a crime that's so unjust, Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt, your mind is filled with dust. Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains, and your blood it must refuse to flow, For you let this human race fall down so God-awful low! This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan. But if all of us folks that thinks alike, if we gave all we could give, We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live.

Copyright © 1963; renewed 1991 Special Rider Music

Strange Fruit
Lewis Allen

Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.

Hey to anyone who chooses to read this.

Not a lot been going on lately. Been back to school for like a week now. Nothing too exciting there. Except my socials teacher Mr. Nelson is pretty much insane. He's quite a funny guy, and he also likes to climb things. He climbed from his stool, to his desk, to a filing cabinet, to another filing cabinet just to hang up a plant!

I'm pretty sure I've got it set up to do my speech at the next grade meeting. Not sure if I said that before or not.

Anyway, my grandma hasn't died yet. At first, she actually showed a little tiny bit of improvement, but then she stopped improving. She's also in restraints because she was trying to take her tubes out herself and stuff, but the doctors wouldn't let her so they put her in restraints in her bed. She was pretty upset about that from what I hear. She's still not able to talk either. I haven't talked to her on the phone since the other night, I haven't felt the need to. If she gets to a point where she's able to respond verbally to what I say I might consider talking, but right now no. I said what I felt I needed to, and that's more than a lot of people get.

Like to shout out to a close friend of mine as well, she'll know who she is if/when she reads this, I sympathize for her, because she too just lost her grandmother. She was from what I heard, very close to her grandmother, so she's having a rough time.
On a brighter note though, eating pizza made her feel better. :) Proof that pizza actually has medicinal/healing qualities!

Been listening to a couple of new bands lately, well they're not new, but they're bands that I never listened to before, though they're quite well known. My Chemical Romance, and Alexisonfire. Both have their pros and cons, but I like some of their songs so I listen to it obviously. :)

Anyhow, I suppose that's all I really have to say for the time being. Oh, wait, no it's not.
My mom is in LA right now, at a computer convention there. She went there to meet new people who she can interview for her podcast. Her podcast can be found here.
That's really all I have to say now. Have a good one!
-David.