She Came Home Blameless

I'm going down to the river

To lay my burden down

Going down to the river

To lay my burden down

And for the first time in my life

For the first time in my life

For the first time in my life

I'll be free

For the first time

I'll be free

She came home running

Back to the mothering blackness

Deep in the smothering blackness

White tears icicle gold plains of her face

She came home running

She came down creeping

Here to the black arms waiting

Now to the warm heart waiting

Rime of alien dreams befrosts her rich brown face

She came down creeping

She came home blameless

Black yet as Hagar's daughter

Tall as was Sheba's daughter

Threats of northern winds die on the desert's face

She came home blameless

She came home blameless

For the first time in my life

For the first time in my life

I'll be free