Said I've got something to say
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My dear lady,
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Dear Rosa,
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I want to say what's on my mind
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I'm writing you a letter
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With love and hope in every line
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I try not to think about the pain
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But how your sacrifice will reign
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Dear Rosa,
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Who would believe?
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So hot and tired
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What made you decide?
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That you would rather die
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Than just stand so someone else could ride
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And prove that lie again
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That the color of our skin made us less than other men
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Dear Rosa,
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Sit down servant
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Come on in
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How long? Will this hate go on?
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Change our lives and now you're gone
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Somebody said, and still the cross is burned.
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Dear Rosa,
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The spirit will yearn.
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Sitting down in the front of the bus
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You made a stand for all of us
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You didn't move when they called you names
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You knew that a mind was the hardest thing to change.
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Living in a line, your freedom denied,
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After Malcolm, Martin and John gave their life.
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Dear Rosa,
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It's so hard not to cry
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Dear Rosa,
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You didn't live to see the day we talked to one another
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Regardless of the color of our skin
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Or the gods we believed in
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When I look around and see people filled with pain
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Dear Rosa,
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How did you keep your faith?
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Yes, tell me
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How long, will this go on?
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You changed our lives
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Now your gone away, goneeeeeeee
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Somebody says, and still the cross is burned.
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Dear Rosa,
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The spirit will yearn.
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[Chorus: (Background)]
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Dear Rosa,
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Oh we miss you yes, yes we do
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Uh huh, oh the trials and troubles
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Regardless of the right things to do
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Rosa,
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What a wonderful woman
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I am so glad
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Rosa, you sat down.
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[Chorus: (Background)]
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Rosa, tell will we ever ride
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Where would I be, Rosa if you did not believe
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Keep the memory; you've been a blessing to me
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I want the world to sing, oh
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[Chorus: (Background)]
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Rosa oh, you have been good to me
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Change our lives
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Oh the pride that I feel and I know that it?s real
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Somebody say, hey hey
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Dear Rosa,
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You sat on down
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I'll keep saying it
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Yes you did
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Tell me somebody
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Dear Rosa [repeat 6X's]
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[Chorus:]
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Rosa, I don't know where I'd be, but I know yes indeed.
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Change our lives, and the pride that I feel, yes I know that it's real.
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Somebody say, Dear Rosa,
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Dear Rosa
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