GONNA RISE UP [ R&B/Country-Blues ]   Times were lean but we scrapped by in our humble little delta home   Raised crawfish in the pond, traded them for rice and corn   Then the muddy river rose up, Lord, an' it swallowed our whole town   Left a 200-ton boat on the bridge with it's prop just spinnin’ around   Someday, we're gonna rise above this tide   Build a bridge across the great American divide   We’ll be dancin’ in the street to a united heart beat   Oh, someday, we're gonna rise up   Now, in this hour of tragedy, it seems like everyone is torn   Between red an’ blue, left an’ right, wealthy and forlorn   But if we don’t pull together, cast our difference to the wind   The liberty bell’s gonna split apart, it’s either sink or swim   Someday, we're gonna rise above this tide   An' build a bridge across the great American divide   We’ll be dancin’ in the street to a united heart beat   Oh, someday, we're gonna rise up   I held my sweet baby close to me as she slowly, slowly passed away   Sing out Crescent City’s song, gonna rise again someday   Oh, someday, we're gonna rise above this tide   Build a bridge across this great American divide   We’ll be dancin’ in the street to a united heart beat   Oh, someday, we're gonna rise up   Gonna rise up   Oh, someday, we're gonna rise above this tide   An' build a bridge across the great American divide   And this flood of tears we’ve all cried will one day long be dried   Oh, someday, someday, we're all gonna rise up   Oh, I believe, we're all gonna rise up, yeah * * Dedicated to Clarence Gatemouth Brown, one of the greatest musician/artists to ever grace the shores of this land called America, whose death at the age of 81, shortly after evacuating his home in New Orleans, is thought to have largely been from heartbreak in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina to his beloved city; and to Antoine Fats Domino, American Bourbon Street treasure, who was lost and is now found.             Copyright © 2005 by Richard Aberdeen Copyright © 2006 by Freedom Tracks Music No part of this material may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including printing, photocopying, recording or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher and signed by the author.  Inquiries: Freedom Tracks Music ~ Records, 292 Trails Circle, Nashville, TN 37214 or requested via eMail.  Essays entitled Revolution and Revolution -- Side B are open copyright and may be reproduced or utilized as often as one likes.