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Intro

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  (VI) Four little girls tying their sash

  In the basement room that day

  Poking fun and making jokes

  Before getting on their knees to pray

(VII) Just so young with all their dreams

and years to the end

Strewn away in the rubble

By the hatred of scared white men

(VIII) It was early December

in the year of '63

George Wallace defied

what the courts they did decree

(VIV) They said make your school doors open

for the child of black and white

Wallace clenched up both his fists

and called out for a fight

  (Chor) Down in the Birmingham jail

  Down in the Birmingham jail

  You had a chance to live your life

  But now your locked...

  In the Birmingham jail

(VV) When the locals heard the news that day

Their blood began to boil

They decided the only good colored man

Was down beneath the soil

(VVI) So with their hat and money

They began to conspire

And soon in Birmingham the air was thick

With Powder and Fire

Chorus