Work Song (Blood on the Fields)

[MEN, spoken]
Soon can mean ten minutes, or ten lifetimes.
Fourteen years of bondage has passed.

[JESSE]
Mmm

[LEONA]
Mmm hmm

[JESSE]
Liftin' and a-totin'

[LEONA]
Packin' and a-sackin'

[JESSE]
Pickin' and a-hoein'

[LEONA]
Seedin' and a-feedin'

[JESSE]
Plowin' and a-growin'

Mmm hmm, all day long
I raise my head to sky
Beat back down by sun's burning gaze
The field hand's cry
I split my fingers down to the blood again

[LEONA]
Blood on the fields
King cotton grow
Brown soil yields
White up above
Red down below

Brown soil yields
White up above
Red down below
And tomorrow
I can't take no more, no more, no more

[JESSE]
All day long
Woman
Hush up your whining now
And hold your head up high
To curse this evil land

To hell with this strange man
Watching over me
Day long
I rise
Bеat down
Again

[LEONA]
Oh, just hold that whip, massa

[JESSE]
Driver! Driver, hold that whip

[LEONA]
Down on one knee

[JESSE]
Got to gеt free
Cruel hot sun

[LEONA]
Day is just begun

[JESSE]
All day long

[JESSE & LEONA]
Blood on the fields
King cotton grow
Brown soil yields
White up above
Red down below
Take me home
Far, far away
Blood on the fields
Blood on the fields

[JESSE]
Pickin' and a-hoein'

[LEONA]
Blood on the fields

[JESSE]
Packin' and a-sackin'

[LEONA]
Blood on the fields

[JESSE]
Plowin' and a-growin'

[LEONA]
Blood on the fields

[JESSE]
Liftin' and a-totin'

[LEONA]
Blood on the fields

[JESSE]
Got to get, got to get free, got to get free

[JESSE & LEONA]
Red down below

[LEONA]
And tomorrow