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“If dogs run free, why not me” if blacks are allowed to roam free why not
me? Why can’t I be free of the threat of crime? “Across the swamp” across
a situation or place fraught with difficulties and imponderables like a prison
“of time” time – informal: a prison sentence. “My mind” Upper Southern US
To have in mind as a goal or purpose; intend “I have a mind to swallow you
up” “weaves a symphony” interweaves or combines (elements) into a
complex whole: wove the states into the Confederacy. “Symphony”
harmony, especially of color “and tapestry” a colorful and complicated
situation: the rich tapestry of Southern American life “of rhyme” rhyme or
reason sense, logic, or meaning “Oh, winds” destructive forces of the Union
“which rush my tale” which make me present my case to God “to thee” an
old word for you used only when addressing one person, especially God.
“So it may flow ” so the south might rise again “and be” and exist “To each
his own, it’s all unknown” state rights is a better form of government
because you don’t know what you are dealing with when you deal with “if
dogs run free” freed slaves.
“If dogs run free, then what must be must be, and that is all”
If Blacks are allowed their freedom there will always be crime and that is
that. It is evolutionary. Sarcastic: “True love can make a blade of grass
Stand up straight and tall” loving Blacks can make something very primitive
evolve into a human-being. Also sarcastic: loving Blacks will make them
evolve faster. “In harmony” in a relationship in which various components
exist together without destroying one another such as Whites and Blacks
“with the cosmic sea” were the natural order of things rules Cosmic: So
pervasive and all-inclusive as to exist in or affect the whole world “true love”
loving the Blacks or N-word loving “needs no company” does need a
subdivision of a military regiment like the National Guard to keep them in
line. Sarcastic: “It can cure the soul” it can correct a harmful situation that
Blacks have created Soul: of or relating to Black Americans and their
culture: soul brother; soul food. “It can make it whole” can replace the part
that is missing in Blacks, the gene “If dogs run free.”