Harriet Tubman

Co-written with Jessica Garraway, to the tune of Pattyroller, also known by its more racist name. This song is our reclamation of that melody. Wooden Shoe Ramblers version. 

Running through the forest, running through the hills
Hear those dogs a-barking at Harriet Tubman’s heels
With a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the next 
She led the fight for freedom with that fire in her chest 

Hey Sister Harriet, Tell me where you gone?
I’ve gone up to the north country, I left before the dawn
The fight for our freedom was the price to go my bail
A thousand dollars on my head and hound dogs on my trail

Harriet saying brother come along with me
We’ll chase behind the drinking gourd and find the Jubilee
Harriet saying sister come on, don’t be slow
Ain’t gonna wait for Pharoah just to let our people go

Hear the voices telling me by morning we’ll be free
General Tubman’s coming up the banks of Combahee
People gotta rise up when we hear the trumpets blow
And the master’s house is falling like the walls of Jericho