Black & White Lyrics - Hunger - Janis Ian

Black & White 

Janis Ian 

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We were marching from Montgomery, 

Alabama, '65 

Freedom riders, Jim Crow heroes, 

come to keep the faith alive 

We were picking Southern cotton, 

registration for the vote 

We were one then 

We were young then 

when black & white still spoke 

Now it's all gone to pieces 

God alone knows why 

Just a story they call history 

written down in black & white 

And we set aside our anger, 

and we set aside our fears 

And we built a common future 

on the bedrock of our tears 

And we marched for the children 

and the millions without hope 

We agreed to believe, 

when black & white still spoke 

Now it's all gone to pieces 

God alone knows why 

Just a story they call history 

written down in black & white 

Nothing's sadder than the man who 

thinks he's free when he is chained 

to the prison of his hatred 

and a dream gone up in flames 

Colored only at the fountains, 

congregations, soda shops 

Colored only in the bathrooms 

and the cemetery lots 

And if Jesus was a black man 

or as white as Sambo's grin 

it's his words that we'd remember 

not the color of his skin 

It's all gone to pieces 

God alone knows why 

Just a story they call history 

written down in black & white 

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