Mother Emanuel - Shirley Caesar

Oh Mama, mother Emanuel

You taught your children well

To Love instead of Hate

They did not discriminate

Standing strong against the gates of hell

Oh Mama, mother Emanuel

Oh Mama, mother Emanuel

You taught your children well

To color of their skin just can’t change the soul within

Loves a place where hate can never dwell

Oh Mama, mother Emanuel

Emanuel

(Emanuel, Emanuel)

Mother Emanuel

(Mother Emanuel)

Lord with us, hallelujah

(Lord with us)

Lord will never fail

Oh mama, mother Emanuel

(Mother Emanuel)

Sorry I won’t embrace, a stranger grace

You shed a better way, and you taught him how to pray

(You taught him how to pray)

Oh, oh, if there’s a sacred place, he met love face to face

Oh but he pulled the gun and change the world

(Changed the world)

For everyone

(Obama: Cynthia Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lance., DePayne Middleton-Doctor,

Tywanda Sanders, Daniel L. Simmons, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton,

Myra Thompson…)

Oh Mama, mother Emanuel, you taught your children well

(taught them well)

A highway to live with courage

(With Courage, truth for keep)

Truth for keep, caring to believe that love will always prevail

(Love prevails)

Oh, Oh Mama

(mother Emanuel)

Oh, Mama, mama, mother Emanuel

(mother Emanuel)

Oh Yes, love is always with us

Thank you for your forgiving spirit