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Charisse Song The women's music group Samsara is re-writing Joan Baez's song "Prison Song Trilogy". This first verse is about Charisse Shumate who died at CCWF in August 2001.Charisse was a woman warrior, a mother and a prisoner Her smile kept those cold gray walls from making us surrender A battered woman, she did resist, a lovers' cruel abusive fist Picked up the gun feeling no other way out. Her story echoed the others inside She found them fighting to survive Through neglect those prisons doctors let so many sisters die With her body weak she took them on In the courts, the victory road was long, still we wait for justice to be done. As she lay shackled to her cell bed Two prison guards heard her last sigh, Those warm august winds they took her A spirit free at last to fly come and lay, help us lay, her body down. Last updated November 14, 2003 11:15 AM |
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