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Have You Heard of Mississippi

John Gillen
Resistance Poetry
Published in
2 min readDec 3, 2020

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Have you heard of Mississippi
Have you heard her Muddy Waters
Do you know the many sighs
Of New Orleans and her daughters

Have you been to Alabama
Have you heard of Doctor King
Have you listened to his words
How they made the mountains ring

Have you danced in Tennessee
In the hall of Graceland’s King
Have you heard the slap and tickle
Of the rock n’ roll he sings

Have you been to California
Have you walked the desert sand
Have you seen the dreams of angels
Put your feet where they did stand

Have you heard the Kansas wind
Have you listened to the band
Singing songs of marchin’ glory
And the wars on Texas land

And have you been to New York town
Have you stood at Woody’s side
Have you journeyed ‘cross the nation
To the bed on which he died

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