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Callaloo and Collards
Turnip Greens and Dollars
More Bills than the means
Er’body chasing that Greens

Riding through the pages
Of this history book
We be the entire saga
Take a 2nd look
Now we comparing photos
You can’t deny
Ancient statues and kinfolk
sittin' side by side
Check the braids, scars, curves, hips
The Dance, nose, eyes, lips
Blues People
Black, the shades of Brown
Blues People
Our time is now
Cause We are Born free.
On this round thing
Pay ya fare
ka-ching ka-ching

Callaloo and Collards
Turnip Greens and Dollars
More Bills than the means
Er’body chasing that Green

Children, the future, the living
Giving to them what we’ve been given
Mansa-Musa rich, with cornucopia abundance
Family, Love, wisdom…Oneness
Makin’ a house feel like home
But not by bread and bread alone
It’s the bow guides the arrow
Keep it focused on the straight and narrow

Stan "Steam" Smith:

Callaloo and Collards
Turnip Greens and Dollars
More Bills than the means
Er’body chasing that Green

Gimme, gimme mine
I need mine like today
40 acres and a mule
a tractor maybe tools
greenbacks…fertile land where my grands planted seeds at
…pecan trees That
man’s got plans to snake the deed from me
Imminent domain and taxes
take the keys from me
Gangster lien on me
Granny left the crib to mama
now it’s mine
To find everything’s behind..the drama
and the neighborhood is changing
A few of us remaining
just maintaining
Still at the door…
can I buy your house for two dollars
maybe four?
Disrespect me to my face
and take advantage of the poor
Try to hold on the land itself is wealth.
It’s a long game
gotta play the hand that’s dealt
Band together advocate for self
financial health.
There’s strength in numbers
more hands can help.
Sow seeds and reap the benefits of citizenship
which isn't -Just accepting scraps in exchange for our patience.
In fact keep all small change
reparations
lump sum in payments -Long lush vegetation
constant elevation on location from a foundation
Based on the abomination of our presence in this nation
via slave ship -Colonizer field trips
savages who wield whips for chips
and steal all they can get with the quickness
like we supposed to just chill kick it
be the meal ticket (nah..not us)
This is business, whole team on a mission
To organically grow mo clean leafy green nutrition
That...

Callaloo and Collards
Turnip Greens and Dollars
More Bills than the means
Er’body chasing that Green