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Sadie was a slave on a plantation fine
this was right around the Civil War time.
Sadie she worked in the house so grand
when South against the North took their stand.
The people she worked for were not kind or nice
Sadie swore their hearts were made of ice.
Many a slave was hung up and whipped
paid a terrible cost for the smallest slip.
Worst of slavery in that place took it’s stand
such horrors there were man against man.
But something was watching and it’d get it’s due
for all the things the slaves there were put through.
One day the master knocked Sadie to the floor
and the watching ghost couldn’t take any more.
That night the ghost took over Sadie it’s true
to change that night there was nothing she could do.
And late that night after the master was in bed
it whispered terrible things in Sadie’s head.
She got some kerosene she poured it in the house
curtains, carpets, and furniture all of it she doused.
Then she struck a match threw it on the floor
that grand fancy house went up with a roar.
The master now he never made it out
no one ever knew how the fire came about.
Now the big grand fancy house is gone
and all the poor slaves they have moved on.
They say when the wind blows through there
you can hear the master’s whip cracking through the air.
WRITTEN BY: MARTHA GETTLE
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