Cotton Comes to Harlem
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:05:02
No!
No!

:05:03
I wasn't even down on
my knees to shoot craps.

:05:06
Ha ha!
Ha ha!

:05:07
Deke o'malley
was down on his knees

:05:10
in the white man's jail
:05:12
cleaning out the
white man's toilet bowl!

:05:13
No!
No!

:05:14
All right!
:05:15
So l-i asked the lord
to help me!

:05:19
To show me the way!
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And bless my soul, he did!
:05:23
Yeah!
He did!

:05:24
The lord come to me
in a dream!

:05:26
He said,
"deke, I want to use you

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like I used noah of old!"
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He said, "deke, I want you
to build an ark

:05:37
and sail my people home!"
:05:38
Yeah!
Yeah!

:05:39
And there she is,
black beauty!

:05:43
Are you black enough
to hear me?

:05:47
Amen! Amen!
:05:49
For 3 months now,
:05:50
in detroit, chicago,
los angeles,

:05:53
baltimore, washington,
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people have been
standing in line,

:05:57
waitin' and waitin'
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for a chance to get
on boardblack beauty.

:06:02
'Cause, brothers,
we are going home.

:06:06
Good-bye, rats and roaches!
:06:09
Good-bye being
kicked and low-rated!

:06:12
Good-bye getting
robbed and cheated!

:06:14
Good-bye having to live
on the white man's welfare!

:06:18
Right on, brother!
:06:19
We are going home.
:06:35
Come on! Next!
What's your name, miss?

:06:38
You'll find salvation.
:06:39
How the hell did he
get a permit for this?

:06:42
Lieutenant says
it's a race leap.

:06:45
It's doing good
for his people.

:06:47
Thank you, reverend o'malley,
thank you.

:06:49
We're going home
:06:50
all going home
:06:54
we're going home

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