War Story - Georgia Brown

This is a story

About a boy

That had his youth

Completelly marked

By war

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This is a story

About a boy

Who suddenly

Found himself

In the middle

Of World War II

And he was only

Fifteen years old

And he had

To take care of himself

And his family’s survival

His mother used

To hide many refugees

In the basement

Of his house

Everything

Has been destroyed

And there was no food

At that time there

Was a big apple harvest

Stone soup and ground

Wood to make pasta

People were

Starving to death

This is consequence

Of check it out

Juss hear it

Somebody

So cool jammed

He was jammed

Into a world

And couldn’t be free

He jammed

Everything

Is gonna be all right

I don’t know why

They did this

To the world

This guy

Is a mutha fuckar

There wasn’t work

At all

Everybody was dying

Bombs everywhere

Lots of people lost

Their families

Then one day

The boy realized

There was

No way out of there

When his mother came

And told him

To go to the basement

To protect himself

Of the bombs

And he said

If I have to die

I’m gonna die

Anyway here

Or down there

When one day

The americans

Aarrived bringing

Food

Clothes and doctors

And the guy

And his family

Were found safe

Somebody

So cool jammed

He was jammed

And couldn’t be free

Everything

Is gonna be all right

Oh

Baby, hey baby

Stop the war

It’s peace time

My baby

For the american black

Sargeant friendship

He became

The mascot

Of the battalion

And then his

Younger friend

Called John Louis

Taught him

Everything about boxing

And the black culture

And he knew nurses

Who were the great

Jazz and Blues singers

Ok

This is everything

That he taught

To his

Black soul daughter

And here I am

Georgia n tha house

This is the story

Of my father

And like him

Many people suffered

Lost their families

And had their countries

Completelly destroyed

It’s like this

Everybody screatching

From nothing

It’s real

You know what I mean?

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