Precious Cargo

Album: Life On Earth (2022)
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  • Precious cargo at the river
    Me swimming, just to get across
    With the babies on my shoulder
    Grab my neck so they don't get lost
    We made it through the jungle, no water there for two weeks
    Many dead that we walked by and thugs hiding in the trees
    We made it to the border
    I jumped and I was detained
    Split me from my family
    Now the light begins to fade
    They took me to the cold room, where I sat down on the floor
    Just a foil for a blanket
    For seventeen days or more

    We sleep on the floor for seventeen days
    We sleep on the floor like a dog
    We sleep on the floor for seventeen days
    Foil blanket, shivering hard
    We sleep on the floor for seventeen days
    We sleep on the floor like a dog
    We sleep on the floor for seventeen days
    Foil blanket, shivering hard

    (Inshallah)
    (Inshallah)

    Once I was a little boy, out in the cassava fields
    I dream of it sometimes at night, and none of this seems real
    I've been in here for thirteen months
    I walked all of this way
    But me no never seen no handcuffs 'til I get to the USA
    No, me no never seen no handcuffs 'til I get to the USA

    I don't know why you would lie on me, the man from the I.C.E
    And I don't know why he hate on me, the man from the I.C.E
    Oh, I.C.E, I.C.E, me hate you, oh I.C.E
    Oh, I.C.E, I.C.E, me hate you, oh I.C.E

    And I don't know why you would lie on me, the man from the I.C.E
    And I don't know why he hate on me, the man from the I.C.E
    Oh, I.C.E, I.C.E, I hate you, oh I.C.E
    Oh, I.C.E, I.C.E, I bring you down, oh I.C.E

    Precious
    Precious
    Precious
    Precious
    Mississippi, Louisiana
    River, Barbary, Gina, LaSalle
    Mississippi, Louisiana
    Richwood, Adams (?)
    Mississippi, Louisiana
    River, Barbary, Gina, LaSalle
    Mississippi, Louisiana
    Richwood, Adams (?) Writer/s: Alynda Segarra
    Publisher: DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
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