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4-19-1941, Tuskegee, Alabama
They said Black men can't fly
So I got in the plane with Chief Charles Anderson
1 hour over Alabama, and I made them print the picture
That picture funded the whole squadron
2-19-1942, my own husband signs the camps for the Japanese
I fought him. I lost
4-23-1943, Gila River, Arizona. I went myself and wrote what I saw
And the country hated me for it
[Verse]
Oct 1942, London, the East End in the Blitz
Bombed streets, shelters, women in the factories
Aug 1943, South Pacific. 25,000 miles. 17 islands
Guadalcanal. Halsey said don't come
I came
400,000 men. 4 hospitals a day
Every bed. Every name. Every mother written to when I got home
I was 59 years old doing that
And I came back 30 pounds lighter
[Verse]
4-12-1945, he dies, and a reporter asks me
And I said the story is over
I was wrong
Dec 1945, Truman sends me to the United Nations
Only woman in that delegation, and they gave me the committee they thought was harmless
1946 to 1948, Lake Success, Geneva, Paris
81 meetings. Line by line. Word by word
I ran the Soviets and the Saudis past 2 in the morning until they gave in
Because I would not
[Chorus]
12-10-1948, 3 in the morning, Palais de Chaillot
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Every human on this earth. No exceptions
And the whole assembly stood up
Only standing ovation that hall has ever given a person
That was mine
[Verse]
Where do universal human rights begin?
In small places, close to home
So close and so small they cannot be seen on any map of the world
Yet they are the world of the individual person
The neighborhood. The school. The factory. The farm
Unless they have meaning there, they have no meaning anywhere
I wrote that. Look it up
[Verse]
1952, India, Pakistan, Japan
1957, 3 hours across a table from Khrushchev
9-5-1958, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee
$25,000 on my head. FBI says we cannot protect you, don't go
Pistol in my lap. Back roads. 73 years old
I went anyway
12-14-1961, Kennedy, Commission on the Status of Women
77 years old, and that is where your equal pay comes from
11-7-1962, I die
[Chorus]
12-10-1948, 3 in the morning, Palais de Chaillot
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Every human on this earth. No exceptions
And the whole assembly stood up
Only standing ovation that hall has ever given a person
That was mine
[Verse]
They just loved to watch. They loved to write down what I did
No television in a house yet, so I gave them a program
Every step, to the T. Not creating. Just recording
3,000 pages of a woman going exactly where she said she'd go
Boys, you were my stenographers
You built my record for me and you don't even know it
And I am not in handcuffs
Fat Boys Imagining things. Keep writing
[Outro]
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
I said that too
You've heard it on a coffee cup
Now you know whose mouth it came out of
Say my name
Eleanor Roosevelt

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4-19-1941, Tuskegee, Alabama They said Black men can't fly So I got in the plane with Chief Charles Anderson 1 hour over Alabama, and I made them print the picture That picture funded the whole squadron 2-19-1942, my own husband signs the camps for the Japanese I fought him. I lost 4-23-1943, Gila River, Arizona. I went myself and wrote what I saw And the country hated me for it [Verse] Oct 1942, London, the East End in the Blitz Bombed streets, shelters, women in the factories Aug 1943, South Pacific. 25,000 miles. 17 islands Guadalcanal. Halsey said don't come I came 400,000 men. 4 hospitals a day Every bed. Every name. Every mother written to when I got home I was 59 years old doing that And I came back 30 pounds lighter [Verse] 4-12-1945, he dies, and a reporter asks me And I said the story is over I was wrong Dec 1945, Truman sends me to the United Nations Only woman in that delegation, and they gave me the committee they thought was harmless 1946 to 1948, Lake Success, Geneva, Paris 81 meetings. Line by line. Word by word I ran the Soviets and the Saudis past 2 in the morning until they gave in Because I would not [Chorus] 12-10-1948, 3 in the morning, Palais de Chaillot Universal Declaration of Human Rights Every human on this earth. No exceptions And the whole assembly stood up Only standing ovation that hall has ever given a person That was mine [Verse] Where do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home So close and so small they cannot be seen on any map of the world Yet they are the world of the individual person The neighborhood. The school. The factory. The farm Unless they have meaning there, they have no meaning anywhere I wrote that. Look it up [Verse] 1952, India, Pakistan, Japan 1957, 3 hours across a table from Khrushchev 9-5-1958, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee $25,000 on my head. FBI says we cannot protect you, don't go Pistol in my lap. Back roads. 73 years old I went anyway 12-14-1961, Kennedy, Commission on the Status of Women 77 years old, and that is where your equal pay comes from 11-7-1962, I die [Chorus] 12-10-1948, 3 in the morning, Palais de Chaillot Universal Declaration of Human Rights Every human on this earth. No exceptions And the whole assembly stood up Only standing ovation that hall has ever given a person That was mine [Verse] They just loved to watch. They loved to write down what I did No television in a house yet, so I gave them a program Every step, to the T. Not creating. Just recording 3,000 pages of a woman going exactly where she said she'd go Boys, you were my stenographers You built my record for me and you don't even know it And I am not in handcuffs Fat Boys Imagining things. Keep writing [Outro] The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams I said that too You've heard it on a coffee cup Now you know whose mouth it came out of Say my name Eleanor Roosevelt

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