Jackie Robinson Lyrics

Luther Jackson green
you didn't even in the apartment above me
we smoke cigarettes on the stairs
tell me stories that whipe boys never hear
like when it found the shine
can move north in 1949
on this gentle..got it took em the talent
see the Jackie Robinson play
it was a picture perfect day
in the sunshine in the hate
you didn't understand why those people were said such horrible things
his death pays no attention to them
turn around to what's a man

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The wood black man in the place bar
filled was better in every day
my daddy said if you wanna win in this world
you gotta beat em at the wrong game

Luther Jackson green
with the lost school 1963
in the summer between he worked in Alabama with Martin Luther king
he met a girl in the summer night
and felt hard when saw each other's eyes
there were people down that really didn't like the evil black
and she was white

They found her in the ditch a little outside the town
some stupid memories glass in the..so roof ain't beating down
he looked me in the eyes..and turned and walked away

We knew it was better than other pain
We knew it was better than other pain
We knew that the..when the time to walk away
He knew until he changed the rules
oh and now he beat it with the wrong game

He never did lose that feeling inside
you can hear it in his voice, you can hear it in his eyes
with the move now where's to live
when it's right passed away
and he's running next door to the son
so you're watching..game

Luther Jackson green
watch your legs and that was me
and put the black now in the white house
I think he never thought it seem
could know and ever cry
I could see tears in his eyes

You dreamed about this moment
every single day of his life
yeah..at night in sleep
but it lives long enough to see
America become the kind of..
all he's wanted it to be
he said he could never forget the day
that would beat it with the wrong game
yeah just like Jackie Robinson
like Jackie Robinson


Gotta be bigger than other hand
just like Jackie Robinson ohh
gotta be better than other pen
just like Jackie Robinson ohh
gotta find a better way oh
just like Jackie Robinson ohh
oh gotta beat it the wrong game
just like Jackie Robinson ohh
oh kind of beat the wrong game
just like Jackie Robinson ohh
kind of beating the wrong game
just like Jackie Robinson
just like Jackie Robinson