BeautifulStrangers

Beautiful Strangers - Mavis Staples

Lyrics by：Kevin Morby

Composed by：Kevin Morby

Produced by：Brad Cook

If you ever hear that thunder

Put your eye to the sky boy and wonder

Maybe there's a kingdom above the weather

Oh and whether you're gonna get our name is up to you

If you ever hear that crying

In the distance like some siren

Maybe there's a singer

With no ring around their little finger

Oh love

And if I lose my voice

If I have no choice but to go quiet

Won't you sing for me a melody into the night there

If I die too young and the wolf that comes

Fee-fi-fo-fum

If I die too young and the locust come

Then run run run

Free

If you ever hear that gunshot

You may think 'bout what you do but you don't got

Say a prayer think of mother I am a rock

If you ever hear that sound now

If the door gets kicked in here they come now

Think of others be their cover

I am what they're not

Pray for Paris

They can not scare us

Or stop the music

No

Your got a sweet voice child

Why don't you use it?

And if I die too young or the gunmen come I'm full of love

So release me every piece of me up above

Up above

Love my mama and my papa

Love my sister can't stand the coppers up in their choppers

Oh flying overhead forty-nine dead

Singing oh my Lord carry me home

Oh my Lord carry me home

Oh my Lord come carry me home

And if I die too young for something I ain't done

Carry my name every day

Oh I'm sorry

Oh I'm sorry

Freddie Gray

Oh sleep easy like baby Jesus in a manger

Oh sleep easy like baby Jesus beautiful stranger

If I die too young let all that I've done be remembered

I'll sleep easy like baby Jesus in his manger

I'll sleep easy like baby Jesus safe from danger

Carry onward like some songbird beautiful stranger

Carry onward like some songbird beautiful stranger

Oh my Lord beautiful stranger

Oh my Lord beautiful stranger