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Ain't I a Woman?

by Sarah Howell

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Lyrics based on a quote by Sojourner Truth

Performed live at Muddy Creek Music Hall in Winston-Salem, NC

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Said I once met a woman, said her name was Truth
And that's what she spoke, and now I'll tell it to you
She said, "I've plowed and I've planted and I've gathered in,
But all of the profits went to powerful men."

She said, "Ain't I, ain't I, ain't I,
Ain't I a woman?"

She said, "I bore five children, set 'em on my knee,
Then watched them all sold into slavery.
And when I cried with a mother's grief,
Well, no man but Jesus ever listened to me."

She said, "Ain't I, ain't I, ain't I,
Ain't I a woman?"

"You say I can't have the right that you, sir, can,
'Cause you are like Jesus in that you are a man;
Well, tell me--where did your Christ come from?
From God and a woman, God and a woman,
Man had nothing to do with him!"

She said, "Ain't I, ain't I, ain't I,
Ain't I a woman?"
She said, "Ain't I, ain't I, ain't I,
Ain't I a woman?"

(c) 2015 Sarah S. Howell

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released February 2, 2017

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