Lyrics
Have you ever been like some lost child
Born into this world so all alone?
Have you ever felt you were a stranger
Trying to make your way back home?
Trying to get back where you started
Where they know your people and your past
Have you ever stopped, stood and wondered
If you'll ever find that place at last?
So my old times are not forgotten
They shine like childhood in the light
Old memories sleep beside the cotton
And dreams stand still on the river tonight
I have dreamed beyond the delta
Past this world of black and white
Seen the truth behind the pictures
Photographed in wrong and right
Felt the power that can shake us
Far beyond the lives we found
Seen the unexpected flower
From old roots beneath the ground
So my old times are not forgotten
They shine like childhood in the light
Old memories sleep beside the cotton
And dreams stand still on the river tonight
I can feel the future running
Like this dirt between my hands
I can see a new day rising
For the people and the land
Like my daddy preached before me
Let me stand for what is right
Hallelujah for the union
Praise the Lord and bless this strike
So my old times are not forgotten
They shine like childhood in the light
Old memories sleep beside the cotton
And dreams stand still on the river tonight