Dear Rosa Lyrics - Back To Now - Labelle

Said I?ve got something to say 

My dear lady, 

Dear Rosa, 

I want to say what?s on my mind 

I ?m writing you a letter 

With love and hope in every line 

I try not to think about the pain 

But how your sacrifice will reign 

Dear Rosa, 

Who would believe? 

So hot and tired 

What made you decide? 

That you would rather die 

Than just stand so someone else could ride 

And prove that lie again 

That the color of our skin made us less than other men 

Dear Rosa, 

Sit down servant 

Come on in 

How long? Will this hate go on? 

Change our lives and now you?re gone 

Somebody said, and still the cross is burned. 

Dear Rosa, 

The spirit will yearn. 

Sitting down in the front of the bus 

You made a stand for all of us 

You didn?t move when they called you names 

You knew that a mind was the hardest thing to change. 

Living in a line, your freedom denied, 

After Malcolm, Martin and John gave their life. 

Dear Rosa, 

It?s so hard not to cry 

Dear Rosa, 

You didn?t live to see the day we talked to one another 

Regardless of the color of our skin 

Or the gods we believed in 

When I look around and see people filled with pain 

Dear Rosa, 

How did you keep your faith? 

Yes, tell me 

How long, will this go on? 

You changed our lives 

Now your gone away, goneeeeeeee 

Somebody says, and still the cross is burned. 

Dear Rosa, 

The spirit will yearn. 

Chorus: (Background) 

Dear Rosa, 

Oh we miss you yes, yes we do 

Uh huh, oh the trials and troubles 

Regardless of the right things to do 

Rosa, 

What a wonderful woman? 

I am so glad 

Rosa, you sat down. 

Chorus: (Background) 

Rosa, tell will we ever ride 

Where would I be, Rosa if you did not believe 

Keep the memory; you?ve been a blessing to me 

I want the world to sing, oh 

Chorus: (Background) 

Rosa oh, you have been good to me 

Change our lives 

Oh the pride that I feel and I know that it?s real 

Somebody say, hey hey 

Dear Rosa, 

You sat on down 

I?ll keep saying it 

Yes you did 

Tell me somebody 

Dear Rosa (repeat 6X?s) 

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Chorus: 

Rosa, I don?t know where I?d be, but I know yes indeed. 

Change our lives, and the pride that I feel, yes I know that it?s real. 

Somebody say, Dear Rosa, 

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