Prossers Gabriel Chords

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GDoes anyone know the name GaCbriel PrGosser?

GMy conscience says he’s the one that hisDtory miGssed.

GA blacksmith by trade up at BrooCkfield PlanGtation,

GA Henrico County slave born of owDner ThGomas.

GIf you listen closely you’ll hCear the words perGfect,

GThe Caribbean uprising caught fDire in this lGand.

 Up and down the James RGiver, PamCunky and AppoGmattox,

 TobGacco soil gone bad deferred a movDement for the blGacks.

 NiGne years before, down in SaCnto DomGingo,

 SlGaves refused to submit and took the riDght of all mGen.

 VirGginia whites got nervous and hiCred more milGitias,

GAs blacks inspired, plotted and paDssed on their plGans.

 MiGster Prosser’s Gabriel was smCart as he was stGrong,

GA head of keloid scars and a mind of knoDwing right and wrGong.

 VoGted general at twenty-four in the yDear of eighteen-hunGdred,

 HauGnted by the hymns and wailing of his feDllow slGaves.

 NGow does anyone know the name GabCriel ProGsser?

GMy conscience says he’s the one that hisDtory misGsed.

GA blacksmith by trade up at BrooCkfield PlanGtation,

GA Henrico County slave born of owDner ThGomas.

GIt was on an August night just North of RicChmond, VirGginia,

 GabGriel’s men gathered as their owDners they slGept.

 SGome would burn the Capital to distract resiCdents and masGters,

 WhGile others took the city and frDeed the conGvicts.

 WGell the whites they knew nothing, never sCeen what could hGit ‘em,

 NotGhing like this could happen to their carDefree black mGen.

 BGut think about freedom, now thCink about slaGvery.

 BlGacks armed themselves with muskets and homDemade bayGonets.

 WGith a white flag on the Capital, all blCacks they would rGise.

 AGll whites spared, would lDose but an aGrm.

 YoGu’re a coward if you own men for prDofit and grGeed,

 YoGu’re the coward of all and for all you mDust blGeed.

 NGow does anyone know the name GabCriel ProGsser?

GMy conscience says he’s the one that hisDtory misGsed.

GA blacksmith by trade up at BrooCkfield PlanGtation,

GA Henrico County slave born of owDner ThGomas.

 PhaGraoh and Tom ratted out GabCriel ProGsser,

 ThGeir owner was Mosby, and neiDghbor of hGim.

 TGhey say the sky seemed seized with rCain and lighGtning,

GOn the night of August thirtieth one could sDee nor stGand.

 TGhe militias’ let loose to hunt GabCriel ProGsser,

 WGho took to the swamps as they imprDisoned his mGen.

 FlaGgged a boat whose captain was a MethCodist preGacher,

 BGut a traitor slave turned him Din in the eGnd.

 ThGey hung Gabriel down at BrCoad and 15th StrGeet,

 LGord he would not give a word Dup on his mGen.

 BGut he took that noose and he tCook it with hoGnor,

 HGe’s buried beneath a lot of parked cars, nDow, and pavGement.

 ThGere’s no monument, there’s no stCone here to see hGim,

 JGust black asphalt planked by high-rise hosDpital chaGins.

GIf I had it my way we’d see memoCrials climGbin',

GTo a true and honest hero, ProsDser’s GabGriel.

 NGow does anyone know the name GabCriel ProGsser?

GMy conscience says he’s the one that hisDtory misGsed.

GA blacksmith by trade up at BrooCkfield PlanGtation,

GA Henrico County slave born of owDner ThoGmas.