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For the first time, I am recycling something that I posted early on in my blog.  It’s been a year since Rosa Parks passed on and her body was laid in state in the Capital building on Halloween.

ROSA PARKS ON HALLOWEEN 2005

I didn’t hold truck with Halloween.

I was a good Christian woman.

Ask any one who ever knew me,

they will tell you so.

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I didn’t hold truck with Halloween.

I was a good Christian woman.

Ask any one who ever knew me,

they will tell you so.

Back in Detroit young fools,

with pints and pistols

in their back pockets

burned the neighborhood

each Halloween.

Hell Night they called it

and it was.

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