Rhiannon Giddens - Cry No More

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First they stole our bodies
(I can't cry no more)
Then they stole our sons
(I can't cry no more)
Then they stole our gods
(I can't cry no more)
And gave us new ones
(I can't cry no more)

Then they stole our beauty
(I can't cry no more)
The comfort in our skin
(I can't cry no more)
And then they gave us duties
(I can't cry no more)
And then they gave us sin
(I can't cry no more)

And then came generations
(I can't cry no more)
That helped to build this land
(I can't cry no more)
The bedrock of the nation
(I can't cry no more)
Was laid with these brown hands
(I can't cry no more)

The solace of a people
(I can't cry no more)
Was found with that new god
(I can't cry no more)
And many peaceful steeples
(I can't cry no more)
Would guide the road we trod
(I can't cry no more)

And then they stole our solace
(I can't cry no more)
And then they stole our peace
(I can't cry no more)
With countless acts of malice
(I can't cry no more)
And hatred without cease
(I can't cry no more)

A foul and dirty river
(I can't cry no more)
Runs through this sacred land
(I can't cry no more)
With every act of terror
(I can't cry no more)
They tell us where we stand
(I can't cry no more)

Five hundred years of poison
(I can't cry no more)
Five hundred years of grief
(I can't cry no more)
Five hundred years of reasons
(I can't cry no more)
To weep with disbelief
(I can't cry no more)

Our legacy is mighty
(We can't cry no more)
We can't carry this alone
(We can't cry no more)
You have to help us fight it
(We can't cry no more)
And together we'll be home
(We can't cry no more)
And together we'll be home
(We can't cry no more)
And together we'll be home
(We can't cry no more)

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Rhiannon Giddens is a celebrated artist who excavates the past to reveal truths about our present. A MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Giddens has been Grammy-nominated six times, and won once, for her work with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a group she co-founded. She was nominated this year for her collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, there is no Other (2019), an album that is at once a condemnation of “othering” and a celebration of the spread of ideas, connectivity, and shared experience. She has performed for the Obamas at the White House and acted in two seasons of the hit television series Nashville. Giddens has been profiled by CBS Sunday Morning, the New York Times, and NPR’s Fresh Air, among other outlets. She is featured in Ken Burns’s Country Music series, which aired on PBS last fall. In 2019, Giddens also formed the band Our Native Daughters with three other black female banjo players and contributed to and produced their album Songs of Our Native Daughters (2019), which tells stories of historic black womanhood and survival. Pitchfork has said of her “few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration,” and Smithsonian Magazine calls her “an electrifying artist who brings alive the memories of forgotten predecessors, white and black.” And that is Rihannon Giddens.