Co-written with Jessica Garraway

 

Running through the forest, running through the hills

Hear those dogs a-barking at Harriet Tubman’s heels

With a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the next 

She led the fight for freedom with that fire in her chest 

 

Hey Sister Harriet, Tell me where you gone?

I’ve gone up to the north country, I left before the dawn

The fight for our freedom was the price to go my bail

A thousand dollars on my head and hound dogs on my trail

 

Harriet saying brother come along with me

We’ll chase behind the drinking gourd and find the Jubilee

Harriet saying sister come on, don’t be slow

Ain’t gonna wait for Pharoah just to let our people go

 

Hear the voices telling me by morning we’ll be free

General Tubman’s coming up the banks of Combahee

People gotta rise up when we hear the trumpets blow

And the master’s house is falling like the walls of Jericho