The Ballad of Harriet Tubman

"The Ballad of Harriet Tubman" is a song performed by Brother Kirk in Sesame Street Episode 0362, telling the story of Harriet Tubman. Most of the lyrics, as reproduced in the episode script, come from the 1944 poem "Harriet Tubman" by Margaret Walker.
Brother Kirk would perform the song again, accompanied by Pete Seeger on banjo, on the 1977 album Black American History In Ballad Song And Prose (with Ossie Davis as one of the narrators).
The song includes descriptions of the overt act of violence, stabbing an overseer to death, that Harriet Tubman performed to escape slavery.
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Category:Sesame Street Songs