[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:04.15]I was five years old in Bucktown Maryland [00:10.40]When into slavery I was sent [00:16.56]I'll tell you of the beatings and of the fighting [00:23.00]In my ninety-three years I've spent [00:28.39]I helped a field hand make a run for freedom [00:33.97]When my fifteenth year was rolling round [00:40.67]And the guard he caught him in a little store [00:46.31]In a little slavery village town [00:52.90]The boss made a grab to catch the field hand [00:59.02]I jumped in and blocked the door [01:05.07]The boss he hit me with a two pound scale iron [01:11.14]And I went black down on the floor [01:18.04]On a bundle of rags in our log cabin [01:24.24]My mother she ministered unto my needs [01:31.57]It was here I swore I'd give my life blood [01:37.83]Just to turn my people free [01:44.56]In '44 I married John Tubman [01:50.66]Well I loved him well till '49 [01:56.59]But he would not come and fight beside me [02:02.89]So I left him there behind [02:08.69]I left Bucktown with my two brothers [02:14.63]But they got scared and run back home [02:21.47]I followed my northern star of freedom [02:27.95]I walked the grass and trees alone [02:33.22]I slept in a barn loft and in a haystack [02:38.49]I slept with my people in slavery shacks [02:44.18]They said I'd die by the boss man's bullets [02:51.11]But I told them I can't turn back [02:57.59]The sun was shining in the early morning [03:04.56]When I come to my free state line [03:11.24]I pinched myself to see if I was dreaming [03:18.25]I just could not believe my eyes [03:28.15]I went back home and I got my parents [03:34.04]I loaded them into a buckboard hack [03:40.75]We crossed six states and other slaves followed [03:46.76]Up to Canada made our tracks [03:52.35]One slave got scared and he tried to turn backwards [03:58.26]I pulled my pistol in front of his eyes [04:05.03]I said get up and walk to your freedom [04:11.84]Or by this fireball you will die [04:18.57]When John Brown hit them at Harper's Ferry [04:25.35]My men was fighting right by his side [04:32.11]When John Brown swung upon his gallows [04:39.62]It's then I hung my head and cried [04:45.39]Give the black man guns and give him powder [04:52.62]To Abe Lincoln this I said: [04:59.18]You've just crippled that snake of slavery [05:06.93]We've got to fight to kill him dead [05:13.90]When we faced the guns of lightning [05:19.58]And the thunders broke our sleep [05:26.26]After we waded the bloody rainstorms [05:32.29]It was dead men that we reaped [05:37.69]Yes  we faced the zigzag lightning [05:43.51]But it was worth the price we paid [05:49.28]When our thunder had rumbled over [05:54.85]We'd laid slavery in its grave [06:02.54]Come now and stand around my deathbed [06:09.21]And I will sing some spirit songs [06:16.77]I'm on my way to my greater union [06:24.10]Now my ninety-three years are gone