Michael Peters - Sugar From The Sky

The Slice - Lethbridge, AB scroll down for lyrics...

Well I work for the man in the morning sun
and I work til the evening arrives
but there ain't no cause for us to suffer or sweat
if there's sugar that falls from the sky

I prayed in the church, when I was but young
for the Lord to surely provide
and I listened at the door as my mother wept,
begged for some sugar to fall from the sky

I was sent to the fields when I was just nine
and I worked with the men for dimes
and we watched as the daughters of the bossman passed
wearing that sugar that falls from the sky

Now each time that I look to the bossman's house
I see his wife's accusing eye
she worries that I'll be coming inside one day
for that sugar that falls from the sky

Now and then we see the men from the trading house
in their chauffeured chariots arrive
you know, they laugh when we ask how they stay so fat
they say, there's this sugar that falls from the sky

The boys once asked me to march on the capitol house
and you know, next time I think that I might
'cause there ain't no amount of labour gonna get me a share
of that sugar that falls from the sky

'Cause we all work for the men from the trading house
and we will till such day as they surmise
it's no longer allowed to go rooting about
collecting sugar as it falls from the sky;
'til they can no longer safely go strolling along
collecting sugar as it falls from the sky

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• MIchael
• Peters
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• Curtis
• Nowosad
• Sugar
• Sky
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• Labour
• Protest