Passing

from Swampy by Wilson Abbott

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A true 4 generation biography of my family. Sometimes I wonder where I fit in...maybe we're all just passing.

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Thought I was a redneck child
Up in the North Woods
Just running wild

Sometimes I wonder where I fit in
Black blood in a white skin
Wonder if I'm passing...

My grandfather he passed for white
Was a doctor to those white folks
He was doing all right

On the weekends on the south side of town
Was a doctor to the black folks
He’s not passing now

My father was born in a lynching time 1906
White woman with a black man
Thats a lynching crime

Best don't tell the child or let him meet his black kin
No knowing what a boy might say
Could just do us in

I hear an old aunt say 'you got nice hair
Not black and nappy
Like your little cousins over there'

And I hear some white folks put the black man down
Good thing I don't own a gun
I might just shoot them down

But my family's got all kinds of colors
White black brown and yellow
Maybe we’re all just passing
Maybe we’re all just passing
Maybe we’re all just passing through

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from Swampy, released March 9, 2022
Wilson Abbott: Vocal, acoustic guitar, Dobro & bass

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Wilson Abbott Vashon, Washington

Swampy Dobro, Electric lap steel & Weissenborn style Hawaiian acoustic slide guitar. Original songs from a long life.

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