Ghosts in a Time Machine
Intro: Aha-- aahh--- (x4) [rhythmic force]
Sea island cotton on plantation
The enslaved lived in damnation
Call to worship the creation
And it was a transformation /
Freedmen through the tribulation
waiting for emancipation
lived so long for activation
As the War destroyed the nation
[REFRAIN:] Gullah ghosts, anointed people... led by
Spirit
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[CHORUS]
Ghosts... in a time machine... Bring it back, bring it
back (rep)
They're witnesses to transformation
in the conscience of the nation
They whisper through the old oak trees
They're voices of eternity---
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And another generation,
the Gullah made their declaration
Sense and sound, a cultivation
howlin' in their congregation
Freedom was a celebration
Cut the chains of indignation
- the end of pain and devastation,
liberty of concentration
[REFRAIN:] Gullah ghosts, anointed people... led by Spirit
[CHORUS]
To open up the conversation
It was their determination
to bring forth peaceful integration
(and) such high art imagination
...of no more discrimination
And, glory be, their liberation
They knew it was an obligation
to teach their children of salvation
[REFRAIN:] Gullah ghosts, anointed people... led by
Spirit
Ghosts... in a time machine... Bring it back, bring it
back (rep)
They're voices of eternity---
