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Twenty Miles from Marietta Lyrics
DORSEY:
There is a farmhouse in Marietta
Kinda bettered and forlorn
And in that farmhouse, fourteen years ago
A girl named Mary was born
And she would dance in fields of cotton
There was a tree where she could play
But when her daddy died two years ago
Mary and her momma moved away
It's only twenty miles from Marietta
To a fact'ry in the center of this town
And twenty miles was all it took
To strike that sweet girl down
People of Atlanta fought for freedom to their graves
But now their ciry is a fact'ry and their children are it's slaves
People of Atlanta swing their city gate's wide
And look at what you've wrought
Last Update: June, 29th 2013
Parade Lyrics
- Act 1
- The Old Red Hills of Home
- The Dream of Atlanta
- How Can I Call This Home
- The Picture Show
- Leo at Work/What Am I Waiting For?
- I Am Trying to Remember...
- Big News!
- Funeral: There Is a Fountain/It Don't Make Sense
- Lullaby
- Somethin' Ain't Right
- Real Big News
- You Don't Know This Man
- People of Atlanta
- Twenty Miles from Marietta
- Frankie's Testimony
- The Factory Girls/Come up to My Office
- My Child Will Forgive Me
- That's What He Said
- It's Hard To Speak My Heart
- Summation and Cakewalk
- Act 2
- A Rumblin' and a Rollin'
- Do it Alone
- Pretty Music
- Letter to the Governor
- This Is Not Over Yet
- Blues: Feel the Rain Fall
- Where Will You Stand When the Flood Comes
- All the Wasted Time
- Abduction
- Sh'ma
- Finale