Special Treatment

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 1.Grandfather walked this land in chains      A land he called his own

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 He was given an-other name       And taken into town__        He got
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 special treatment he got special treatment he got  very special treat-ment
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                     We got special treatment we got special treatment we got
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  very special treat-ment


2.My father worked a twelve hour day       4.Mama gave birth to a strangers child
  As a stockman on the station               A child she called her own
  The very same work but no the same pay     Strangers came and took away that child
  As his white companions                    To a strangers home

3.Mother and father loved each other well  5.I never spoke my mother's tongue
  But together they could not stay           I never knew my name
  They were split up against their will      I never learned the songs she sung
  Until their dying day                      I was raised in shame