A Basket of Flaming Ashes

That Boy Obama

59 A Basket of Flaming Ashes That Boy Obama That boy Obama don enter the white house But ma tears still wet the rose garden So new days can grow Last night Skip Gates* was arrested He no criminal But they put the ‘cuffs on him all right. Don’t know what he be doing in them China But child, he had no country to come back to The other day Betty’s child had no invite 15 boys on the team but no b-day card for him Someone say he is new That red haired boy be new too But I guess his color ain’t new Today I turn ma TV on And that son of a slave owner He call ma president a liar He wake ma senses up And I see Preacher King in my dream True, the white house don turn all black But ma tears still wet the rose garden So new days can grow * Prof. Henry Louis Gates of Harvard University. ...