my jasmine, you're so beautiful to me my jasmine, more than a billion dollar ring I'm so glad God gave you to me sleepy angel face of peace i'm so glad
a little boy the age five looked his papa in the eyes and said i really need to talk with you been thinkin bout alot of things
She ain't gotta lot but she's gonna give it anyway Working hard to feed her family day after day Her baby's got a cold and her daughter needs some brand
Hopped in my car Went down to Birmingham, Alabama There I went to the Museum Of Civil Rights And got a lesson in suffering There I saw the likes of Rosa
I'm gon' be free I'm gon' be free Loose my from chains Cleanse me from my stains Heal me from my shame, yeah Give me wings to try Point me to the sky
Sometimes I'm right and I can be wrong My own beliefs are in my songs The butcher, banker, the drummer and then Makes no difference what group I'm in
Riding the city bus on the way to school Me and my two sisters and all the ridicule The older girls on the back of the bus would laugh and call us names
Tell rich and poor in slavery The King has ordered a decree Ransom all captivity Ring the bells of liberty He sacrificed His everything To buy us new
to the C Elementary fundamentals is the way, you found me I was lost, lost as could be Also blind but now I see A to the B to the C Elementary fundamentals
Sometimes, sometimes I'm just Runnin' so fast that I can't touch the ground I'm spinning faster than a merry go round I find myself in the lost and found
All that stuff they wear in magazines All that stuff they do on TV All that ain't working out for me So I Like that, I'm free to comb my hair Like that
Earth without space Clock without face Ocean with no water Sun with no light That's me without You Let me take a moment To smell the roses of my life
There are days when I feel The best of me is ready to begin Then they're days when I feel I'm letting go and soaring on the wind But I've learned in laughter
Much faster than the blink of an eye Lightening will flash and He'll split the sky Nobody knows the day or the time The trumpet will sound and we will
Can I get a witness, ah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Can you get with this, ah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah,
At the end of every rainbow There's a promise proven true No matter how you're feeling now or what you go through There will be somebody lovin' you Deeper
I'm not ashamed to tell the whole world, ohh Without You, I'm nothing at all, all That I have strings in need of mendin' I'm out of tune in certain parts
Momma looks like coffee, Daddy looks like cream Baby is a mocha drop American dream All the colors of the rainbow are in her family tree Woven all together