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You Promised Me a Blessing

Jamal Upshaw

Lord, were is my blessing

Well, I now pick a lot of
cotton and baled a lot of hay

You keep a roof over my head, and
I just continue to pray

You know, after they freed
them slaves, they promised
us forty acres and a mule

You promised me a blessing

Well, I didn’t know I was sitting
on Mr. Gilmore’s property
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Written on August 22, 2023

Submitted by ggolden9 on August 22, 2023

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Scheme A XB XB XXX A AX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 319
Words 72
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2
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