{"id":3775,"date":"2015-12-01T12:31:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T19:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2015-12-01T12:31:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T19:31:30","slug":"sixty-years-ago-the-ballad-of-momma-rosa-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/01\/sixty-years-ago-the-ballad-of-momma-rosa-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixty Years Ago: The Ballad of Momma Rosa Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Rosa-Parks--e1448997303904.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3777\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Rosa-Parks-.jpg?resize=660%2C495&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rosa Parks\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried everywhere to find audio or video of this wonderful song. \u00a0I know it exists because I used to play it with my kids*. \u00a0Even without the music though, it&#8217;s great. \u00a0So on this anniversary, with honor, admiration &#8212; and awe:<\/p>\n<pre>The Ballad of Momma Rosa Parks\r\n(Nick Venet and Buddy Mize, 1963)\r\n\r\nIn nineteen hundred and fifty-five,\r\nIn a southern American town,\r\nA tired colored lady got on a city bus\r\nAnd immediately sat down,\r\nWith a closed mind and an opened mouth\r\nThe big bus driver got rough\r\nAnd told his only passenger\r\nTo move to the back of the bus.\r\n\r\ncho: When Momma Parks sat down,\r\n     The whole world stood up,\r\n     What's good for one is good for all,\r\n     It's good for all of us.\r\n\r\nThe lady's name was Momma Rosa Parks,\r\nA hard workin' woman indeed,\r\nShe was goin' home, 'twas her goin' time,\r\nShe had little hungry mouths to feed,\r\nShe wasn't botherin' nobody\r\nAnd doin' nothin' wrong,\r\nBy the Lord's rules of love\r\nWhen Momma Parks sat down\r\nThe whole world stood up.\r\n\r\nprinted in \"Songs of Peace, Freedom and Protest\" by Tom Glazer \r\n(1970, David McKay Company)<\/pre>\n<p>*If you know where I can find it please let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I&#8217;ve tried everywhere to find audio or video of this wonderful song. \u00a0I know it exists because I used to play it with my kids*. \u00a0Even without the music though, it&#8217;s great. \u00a0So on this anniversary, with honor, admiration &#8212; and awe: The Ballad of Momma Rosa Parks (Nick Venet and Buddy Mize, 1963) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/01\/sixty-years-ago-the-ballad-of-momma-rosa-parks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sixty Years Ago: The Ballad of Momma Rosa Parks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,8,9,1,29],"tags":[3635,3633,3634,469,468,3632,10,21,1024,3636,44],"class_list":["post-3775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-music","category-politics","category-uncategorized","category-women","tag-60th-anniversary","tag-alabama","tag-ballad-of-momma-rosa-parks","tag-civil-rights","tag-human-rights","tag-montgomery","tag-music-2","tag-politics-2","tag-rosa-parks","tag-sixtieth-anniversary","tag-women-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-YT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3779,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions\/3779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}