[ti:My Thirty Thousand]
[00:00.76]Paul Robeson  hes the man
[00:03.63]That faced the Ku Klux Klan
[00:05.34]
[00:06.01]On hollow groves golfing ground
[00:08.23]His words come sounding
[00:10.33]
[00:11.41]And all around him there
[00:14.10]To jump and clap and cheer
[00:16.43]I sent the best the best I had
[00:18.63]My thirty thousand
[00:20.94]
[00:22.17]Well The Klansman leader said
[00:24.09]
[00:24.67]That Paul would lose his head
[00:26.65]
[00:27.32]When thirty five thousand vets
[00:29.70]Broke up that concert
[00:31.44]
[00:32.10]But less than four thousand came
[00:35.38]To side with the Klan
[00:37.40]
[00:37.94]But around Pauls lonesome oak
[00:40.99]My thirty thousand
[00:42.74]
[00:43.70]A beersoaked brassy band
[00:46.01]Did snortle round the grounds
[00:48.27]
[00:48.78]Four hundred noblest souls
[00:50.83]Westchesters manhood
[00:52.39]
[00:53.68]And they looked exactly like
[00:56.11]
[00:56.62]The fleas on a tigers back
[00:58.93]Lost fish in the waters of
[01:01.17]My thirty thousand
[01:03.46]
[01:24.85]When Paul had sung and gone
[01:26.70]
[01:27.26]And the kids and babies home
[01:29.03]
[01:29.76]Cops came with guns and clubs
[01:31.95]And they clubbed and beat 'em
[01:33.51]
[01:34.67]Well  I'd hate to be a cop
[01:36.58]
[01:37.40]Caught with a bloody stick
[01:39.06]
[01:39.79]'Cause you can't bash the brains
[01:41.90]Out of thirty thousand
[01:43.82]
[01:45.02]Each eye you tried to gouge
[01:47.08]
[01:47.60]Each skull you tried to crack
[01:49.39]
[01:49.90]Has a thousand  thousand friends
[01:52.17]Around this green grass
[01:53.82]
[01:54.83]If you furnish the skull someday
[01:57.14]
[01:57.66]I'll pass out the clubs and guns
[02:00.08]To the billion hands that love
[02:02.20]My thirty thousand
[02:04.41]
[02:05.35]Each wrinkle on your face
[02:07.85]I know it at a glance
[02:09.75]
[02:10.30]You cannot run and hide
[02:12.36]Nor duck nor dodge them
[02:14.06]
[02:15.03]And your carcass and your deeds
[02:17.42]
[02:17.95]Will fertilize the seeds
[02:20.54]Of the men that stood to guard
[02:22.79]My thirty thousand
[02:24.58]
[02:25.57]Of the men that stood to guard
[02:27.81]My thirty thousand