LET'S NOT FORGET!

(CHORUS)

LET'S NOT FORGET ALL THOSE WHO WENT BEFORE

THEY DIDN'T MAKE TODAY'S MAJORS THEY DID ENDURE

PLAYING BY THE RULES THEY BEAT JIM CROW AT HIS GAME

BECAUSE OF THEM, OTHERS MADE THE HALL OF FAME

BEFORE JACKIE ROBINSON BLAZED AROUND THE BASES

THE COLOR LINE WAS BROKEN BETWEEN THE RACES

BEFORE SATCHEL, JOSH, AND COOL PAPA BELL

BLACK PLAYERS LIVED IN A WHITE BASEBALL HELL

HONOR YOUNGER THE FIRST COLLEGE PLAYER AT OBERLIN

HONOR FOWLER FIRST PRO IN THE MINORS PITCHING FOR LYNN

HONOR WALKER OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

THE FIRST BLACK MAJOR LEAGUER IN THE NATION

REPEAT CHORUS

THROUGH BEANINGS AND JEERS AND SPIKINGS THEY STAYED

ON A FIELD OF HATRED SOMEHOW BLACKS PLAYED

WITH WHITES ‘TIL THE TURN OF THE CENTURY

IN THOSE TWILIGHT YEARS THEY TRIED TO BE FREE

THEN, PRO BASEBALL TURNED SHARPLY BLACK OR WHITE

BUT IN NON LEAGUE GAMES FREEDOM SHINED HER LIGHT

WHEN BLACKS PLAYED WHITES THEY GAVE THEIR ALL

BLACKS WERE PLAYING MORE THAN BASEBALL

REPEAT CHORUS

REPEAT TAGLINE TWICE

ROBINSON SLID HOME TO END THIS NATIONAL SHAME

BUNTED HOME BY BLACKS WHO LONG AGO PLAYED THE GAME

REPEAT LET’S NOT FORGET TWICE

LET’S NOT FORGET ALL THOSE WHO WENT BEFORE

FADE AND REPEAT: LET’S NOT FORGET (SEVERAL TIMES)

Written by Joe Pickering, Jr. and Phil Coley

Joe Pickering, Jr., President

King of the Road Music

13 Pond Street

Bangor, ME 04401

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