Hard Work

This is the ballad of the black slave,

Who has been beaten and disgraced,

Who has been called nigger and treated as a thing,

Who has received no pay.

This is the ballad of the black slave,

Who prays for freedom every night,

For what he thinks is right.

Now this is the ballad of the freed slave,

who has seen much bloodshed

Who has fought for equal rights,

And who has one his freedom.