Black Pumas - Colors (Juneteenth Session)

Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. LYRICS I woke up to the morning sky first Baby blue just like we rehearsed When I get up off this ground I shake leaves back down to the brown brown brown till I’m clean Then I walked where I’d be shaded by the trees by a meadow of green For about a mile I’m headed to town town town in style With all my favorite colors All my favorite colors My sisters and my brothers see them like no other All my favorite colors Its good day to be a good day for me a good day to see my favorite colors My sisters and my brothers they see them like no other All my favorite colors Now take me to the otherside Where the baby blues birds fly In grey clouds, or white walls, or blue skies we gon’ fly feel alright Now we gon’ woo oo woo oo woo oo ya They sound like