Dan Bull, Tristan D. Lalla - Freedom Cry lyrics

Lord forgive us our trespasses

Have you heard of him?
They say he murders men
Considers slaves to be more than
Beasts of burden when
They should be serving French, English
And German men doing the work
And letting us spread the word of heaven
There's a passage in the Bible:
Shackles are fine
And chattel is like when you're buying cattle
The idea of rights is clear idle chatter
Why do we act like their lives should matter?
Now they're rising, the slaves are revolting
The plantation in flames they are
Razing the whole thing taking control, flee
Breaking the chains
Reclaiming their souls and escaping the pain
I'm gonna run and hide
Inside the governors house
But there's a rising tide
That's flooding us out
Sinking our boat, no quarter or parley
No one endured who has fought Adewale

Rise up my people rise and reply
To the call of your creed
When freedom cries

Have you heard of him?
He's taking our property claiming equality
Making a mockery
Out of the innate authority of our monarchy
A blatant atrocity slaves are commodities
Saving us paperwork wasting our days
Paying wages to labourers
How dare they question it?
I better fetch my whip
I'm getting desperate
Best get back to the deck of the ship
Ade's dropping in chopping limbs off
Left and right till there's no
One left to fight nobody stopping him
Sprinting down the jetty swinging a machete
Heads will drop and hit the deck
As if they were confetti
There's only so long a people can be beaten
'Til they no longer need a
Reason to become treasonous heathens
Jesus Christ please spare my feeble life
Because when freedom cries he replies:
Rise up my people rise and reply
To the call of your creed
When freedom cries