Nanci Griffith - The Loving Kind songtekst

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De song is gebaseerd op het waar gebeurde verhaal van Richard Loving, een blanke, die in 1967 trouwde met Mildred Jeter, een zwarte vrouw, in Virginia. Gemengd huwelijk was toen nog verboden en het echtpaar werd veroordeeld tot 1 jaar cel.
Deze zaak was het begin van de strijd voor gelijke rechten voor gemengde huwelijken. Langzaam veranderden de Amerikaanse Staten hun wetheving. De laatste Staat was Alabama, waar in 2000 eindelijk het gemengde huwelijk officieel werd toegelaten.

Richard Loving was toen al overleden. Hij stierf in 1975 - hij was toen 41 - toen een dronken automobilist hem aanreed. Mildred Loving overleed in 2008.

De youtube clip is live, dus de tekst is niet gelijk aan de album versie, de hieronder staat.

They were the loving kind
She was black and he was white
In Virginia, nineteen fifty eight
They found love amongst the hate

Well, the law said they could not wed
They married anyway
The sheriff put them both in jail
Separated 'til they made their bail

They changed the heart of my nation
With their wedding vows
From the highest court in the land
Their union would lawfully stand

Simply Mildred and Richard
That's how they'll be remembered
They proved that love is truly blind
They were the loving kind

The loving's lived a quiet life
In their Virginia home
And while the case worked its way through the courts
They brought three children to this world

Richard died in seventy five
Mildred kept their love alive
'Till the spring of two thousand eight
Fifty years beyond the hate

They changed the heart of my nation
With their wedding vows
From the highest court in the land
Their union would lawfully stand

Simply Mildred and Richard
That's how they'll be remembered
They proved that love is truly blind
They were the loving kind
They proved that love is truly blind
They were the loving kind

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Auteur: Nanci Griffith

Componist: Nanci Griffith

Publisher: Rounder Records Corp.

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Uitgegeven in: 2009

Taal: Engels

Komt voor op: The Loving Kind (2009)

Toegevoegd door keeskees op Saturday 21st of September 2013 01:34

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