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Title
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Slave's dream
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Singer
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Russell, Mrs.
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Song Lyrics
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Verse 1
I had a dream, a happy dream,
I dreamt that I was free,
That in my own bright land again,
A home there was for me;
Savannah's tide dashed bravely on,
I saw wave roll on wave,
But when in daylight I awoke,
I found myself a slave.
Verse 2
I never knew a mother's love,
Yet happy were my days,
For, by my own dear father's side,
I sang my simple lays;
He died, and heartless strangers came,
Ere closed o'er him the grave,
They tore me weeping from his side,
And claimed me as a slave.
Verse 3
And this was in a Christian land,
Where men kneel down to pray,
The counted land of liberty,
Where lash and chain hold sway;
Then give me back my Georgian cot,
It is not wealth I crave,
And let me live if freedom's light,
Or die, if still a slave.
