You Carried Us           For Professor Glenn W. Frank (1928-1993)
words & music by Greg Artzner & Terry Leonino (2014)

With an M-1 guardin' every door
You said 'let's not study these books no more'
So side by side out into the sun
To join the voices shoutin' down the gun
But that's when peaceful anger met
The searing gas, the bayonet
Before pointed and insistent threat
We marched over that hill

(Ch) You carried us over that river
You carried us over that river
You carried us over that river
Where we wait still, for peace to come

But over on the other side
There really was no place to hide
As on the crest they wheeled 'round
A terrifying, crackling sound
The bullets  flew through steel and wood
Where rightfully the innocent stood
You defended us, did what you could
Against those bound to kill

(Ch)

When the shooting was all done
And the scarlet river deep did run
We could not see through anger blind
Through chaos, raging state of mind
Until your desperate, crying plea
Reminding us of what might be
The slaughter we had yet to see
If we don't walk away
To resist another day

(Ch)

There's also their song 'Kent' on their CD 'Give Light'.
Both songs reflect Terry's experience as she was in the crowd that was fired on by the Ohio National Guard on May 4 1970.

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