Calling Mississippi: Walking, Limping & Wheeling Through Blues Trails by Blackkrip

Verse 1

My body probably won’t make it
Put me in a wheelchair & push it
down those delta trails

Chours

Calling Mississippi
Blind Blues elders
In the delta, do you hear me

Verse 2

I want to walk with my ancestors
In Josh White Sr. footsteps
Holding their hands pulling & pushing

Repeat Verse 1

My body probably won’t make it
Put me in a wheelchair & push it
down those delta trails

Chours

Calling Mississippi
Blind Blues elders
In the delta, do you hear me

Bridge

Under my arm
The book by Sam Myers
And I have no fears
Walking, limping and wheeling through Blues Trails

Verse 3

Suspended by genterfication
Starbucks in the intersection
Go right but Blues spirts told me to go left

Chours

Calling Mississippi
Blind Blues elders
In the delta, do you hear me

Verse 4

My voice bouncing off million dollar museums
That my Black disabled Blues forefathers and mothers are not in
Disrupting my walk through Blues Trails

Repeat

Verse 2

I want to walk with my ancestors
In Josh White Sr. footsteps
Holding their hands pulling & pushing

Repeat Verse 1

My body probably won’t make it
Put me in a wheelchair & push it
down those delta trails

Chours

Calling Mississippi
Blind Blues elders
In the delta, do you hear me

Verse 4

Get ready yeah I’m fifty
Body breaking down more quickly
By all mreans Mississippi, wait for me, cause I’m coming

By Leroy F. Moore Jr.
Wednesday, March 14, 2018