Dear Rosa - LaBelle

Said I?

ve got something to say

My dear lady

Dear Rosa

I want to say what?

s on my mind

I?

m writing you a letter

With love and hope in every line

I try not to think about the pain

But how your sacrifice will reign

Dear Rosa

Who would believe?

So hot and tired

What made you decide?

That you would rather die

Than just stand so someone else could ride

And prove that lie again

That the color of our skin made us less than other men

Dear Rosa

Sit down servant

Come on in

How long?

Will this hate go on?

Change our lives and now you?

re gone

Somebody said, and still the cross is burned

Dear Rosa

The spirit will yearn

Sitting down in the front of the bus

You made a stand for all of us

You didn?

t move when they called you names

You knew that a mind was the hardest thing to change

Living in a line, your freedom denied

After Malcolm, Martin and John gave their life

Dear Rosa

It?

s so hard not to cry

Dear Rosa

You didn?

t live to see the day we talked to one another

Regardless of the color of our skin

Or the gods we believed in

When I look around and see people filled with pain

Dear Rosa

How did you keep your faith?

Yes, tell me

How long, will this go on?

You changed our lives

Now your gone away, goneeeeeeee

Somebody says, and still the cross is burned

Dear Rosa

The spirit will yearn

Chorus: (Background)

Dear Rosa

Oh we miss you yes, yes we do

Uh huh, oh the trials and troubles

Regardless of the right things to do

Rosa

What a wonderful woman?

I am so glad

Rosa, you sat down

Chorus: (Background)

Rosa, tell will we ever ride

Where would I be, Rosa if you did not believe

Keep the memory;

you?

ve been a blessing to me

I want the world to sing, oh

Chorus: (Background)

Rosa oh, you have been good to me

Change our lives

Oh the pride that I feel and I know that it?

s real

Somebody say, hey hey

Dear Rosa

You sat on down

I?

ll keep saying it

Yes you did

Tell me somebody

Dear Rosa (repeat 6X? s)

Rosa, I don?

t know where I?

d be, but I know yes indeed

Change our lives, and the pride that I feel, yes I know that it?

s real

Somebody say, Dear Rosa