DON'T LEAVE ME HANGIN

DON'T LEAVE ME HANGIN

I WAS BORN 1874 LONG AFTER WE WERE SET "FREE"? OR WAS IT EMANCIPATED...I CAN'T MEMBER LEAST WISE I WAS TOLD I WAS POSE TO BE OFF DA PLANTATION  AND I COULD GO WHEREVER I WANTED TO...WELL IN 1894 I SHO THOUGHT A NICE WALK DOWN A TREE LINED COUNTRY ROAD TO GET BACK FROM WORK GOIN TO SEE MY FAMILY...WIFE CHILLUNZ AND ALL...CAUSE I NEVER WANTED TO LEAVE THEM HANGIN...I HEARD SOME NOISE COMIN DOWN DA ROAD BEHIND ME SO I VEERED OFF TO DA SIDE O DA ROAD...WHEN I HEARD SOME SOUNDS VOICES SAYIN BAD STUFF...BUT I WUZ ON MY WAY HOME CAUSE I DIDN'T WANNA LEAVE MY FAMILY HANGIN...BUT WHEN I LOOKED UP THEY HAD PULLED IN FRONT ME MAYBE BOUT 6 OR 7 HORSES LAFFIN THEY WAS LAFFIN AT ME AND ALLZ I COULD THANK OF WAS...I AIN'T TRYNA LEAVE MY FAMILY HANGIN...2 GIRLS AND A BOY..GIRL BEING THE OLDEST AND A LOVELY WIFE...I JES DIDN'T WANNA LEAVE THEM HANGIN...THEY MADE A CIRCLE ROUND ME WID STICKS AND CHAINS...BREAFF SMELLIN LIKE MOONSHINE AND TOBACCA...BOY WHERE YA GOIN...THEY WUZ LAFFIN AND YELLIN AT ME...AND ALLZ I WANTED TO DO WUZ MAKE IT HOME TO MY FAMILY...CAUSE I DIDN'T WANNA LEAVE THEM HANGIN...I DIDN'T SPEAK BACK FAST ENUFF I GUESS.. I FELT A PAIN TO DA HEAD FROM THE HANDLE OF A SHOVEL..MAYBE A HOE THEN A CHAIN HIT MY BACK..WAS IT A WHIP THAT HIT ME.. BLOOD WUZ IN MY EYE...THEY WUZ LAFFIN..THEN I FELT A BOOT IN MY BACK ANOTHER LICK TO MY HEAD...THE BRIGHT LIGHT WAS TURNING INTO DARKNESS..I JUST REMEMBER THINKIN I WANTED TO GO HOME TO MY FAMILY...I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE THEM HANGIN...AS MY LIFE BEGAN TO SLIP AWAY THE...DARKNESS SET IN...I FELT THAT ROPE...NOT THE ROPE GOING AROUND...MY NECK...I SAW LEAVES AND LIMBS THEM I WAS CHOKING...THINKING...I DIDN'T WANT MY GIRLS TO FIND ME...ALZ I WANTED TO DO WAS TO...GO HOME BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE MY FAMILY HANGIN...