WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.660 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.660 --> 00:00:03.300 align:middle line:84% Remember me, I'm the woman you nailed to a tree 00:00:03.300 --> 00:00:06.090 align:middle line:90% after the twilight died. 00:00:06.090 --> 00:00:07.590 align:middle line:90% Carrie, you be still now. 00:00:07.590 --> 00:00:08.430 align:middle line:90% Don't make no noise. 00:00:08.430 --> 00:00:09.870 align:middle line:84% Mama will protect you from all the 00:00:09.870 --> 00:00:11.310 align:middle line:84% shouting and screaming and bidding 00:00:11.310 --> 00:00:12.393 align:middle line:90% that's going on right now. 00:00:12.393 --> 00:00:13.710 align:middle line:90% Hold on, hold on to mama. 00:00:13.710 --> 00:00:14.743 align:middle line:90% Won't be long now. 00:00:14.743 --> 00:00:16.660 align:middle line:84% They didn't have they lunch and something else 00:00:16.660 --> 00:00:18.990 align:middle line:84% will happen to make the fear-- to take 00:00:18.990 --> 00:00:21.660 align:middle line:84% the fear out of your bones and the sweat off in your eyelids 00:00:21.660 --> 00:00:24.090 align:middle line:84% and drain them to the sweet winds for the birds to eat. 00:00:24.090 --> 00:00:25.260 align:middle line:90% Something will happen. 00:00:25.260 --> 00:00:28.500 align:middle line:90% Happens that I be a slave woman. 00:00:28.500 --> 00:00:30.780 align:middle line:84% Maybe that makes me property not a human 00:00:30.780 --> 00:00:32.820 align:middle line:84% being like all you who come to buy me. 00:00:32.820 --> 00:00:34.830 align:middle line:84% See if I'm sturdy, can hold ground, 00:00:34.830 --> 00:00:38.130 align:middle line:84% can withstand the elements, bear fruit when the seed is 00:00:38.130 --> 00:00:40.020 align:middle line:90% in me sing like the Lord-- 00:00:40.020 --> 00:00:41.400 align:middle line:90% like the Lord's land. 00:00:41.400 --> 00:00:44.460 align:middle line:84% Sing for my supper when the seasons come. 00:00:44.460 --> 00:00:47.820 align:middle line:84% Get death, give death a mortgage on my bones. 00:00:47.820 --> 00:00:50.640 align:middle line:90% No, don't come near me. 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:52.470 align:middle line:90% Stay away. 00:00:52.470 --> 00:00:55.500 align:middle line:90% I'm not viable yet. 00:00:55.500 --> 00:00:58.760 align:middle line:90% I'm a bit unleavened. 00:00:58.760 --> 00:01:02.160 align:middle line:84% Still Carrie, be still child, don't cry. 00:01:02.160 --> 00:01:03.736 align:middle line:84% Don't let them see you cry honey, 00:01:03.736 --> 00:01:04.819 align:middle line:90% there's a victor in there. 00:01:04.819 --> 00:01:06.410 align:middle line:90% Keep the tears inward. 00:01:06.410 --> 00:01:07.280 align:middle line:90% How do they say? 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:09.530 align:middle line:84% Hold on to my apron tight if you want. 00:01:09.530 --> 00:01:12.800 align:middle line:84% Hold hard while we crush the evil pushing 00:01:12.800 --> 00:01:15.890 align:middle line:84% its way through that crowd of shoppers yelling before us 00:01:15.890 --> 00:01:18.607 align:middle line:84% and standing there mocking us with money and all the changes 00:01:18.607 --> 00:01:19.190 align:middle line:90% in the temple. 00:01:19.190 --> 00:01:20.960 align:middle line:84% But they all look good, don't they? 00:01:20.960 --> 00:01:25.070 align:middle line:84% Nice coats and trousers, bright shoes, sturdy heads. 00:01:25.070 --> 00:01:27.560 align:middle line:84% Ever seen a finer looking people than that? 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:30.320 align:middle line:84% Evil be pretty sometimes, don't it? 00:01:30.320 --> 00:01:33.980 align:middle line:84% Money look good even if it be for your soul. 00:01:33.980 --> 00:01:35.900 align:middle line:90% Souls can't be bought. 00:01:35.900 --> 00:01:38.030 align:middle line:84% I won't be of much use to anybody who 00:01:38.030 --> 00:01:39.680 align:middle line:90% buys me without my Carrie here. 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:41.153 align:middle line:84% I'd be crippled needing crutches. 00:01:41.153 --> 00:01:42.320 align:middle line:90% Who's going to pay for them? 00:01:42.320 --> 00:01:44.210 align:middle line:84% Or will I have to work the fields limping 00:01:44.210 --> 00:01:46.310 align:middle line:84% about with my mind catching butterflies 00:01:46.310 --> 00:01:49.430 align:middle line:84% when I should be picking cotton because my soul be amputated 00:01:49.430 --> 00:01:51.900 align:middle line:84% when you bought me without my Carrie for a few dollars 00:01:51.900 --> 00:01:52.400 align:middle line:90% cheaper? 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:53.840 align:middle line:90% No, don't. 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:56.690 align:middle line:90% I beg you, don't touch me. 00:01:56.690 --> 00:02:02.220 align:middle line:84% Stay back, I can't leave this block in holocaust. 00:02:02.220 --> 00:02:04.400 align:middle line:90% That's it, Carrie. 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:05.510 align:middle line:90% Hang tight. 00:02:05.510 --> 00:02:06.800 align:middle line:90% My, your forehead be hot. 00:02:06.800 --> 00:02:10.220 align:middle line:84% Fever coming on I suspect and your mother's fever gone cold 00:02:10.220 --> 00:02:13.220 align:middle line:84% making it more dangerous when to be exposed to the elements that 00:02:13.220 --> 00:02:14.840 align:middle line:90% gather up around her now. 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:17.060 align:middle line:84% This early bright morning spoiled 00:02:17.060 --> 00:02:20.450 align:middle line:84% and festering in the mouths of all these happy buyers who 00:02:20.450 --> 00:02:23.300 align:middle line:84% need the disease of your mama's wrath 00:02:23.300 --> 00:02:26.510 align:middle line:84% so they can recover from their own dying. 00:02:26.510 --> 00:02:30.410 align:middle line:84% Dying today if I be sold without my Carrie, I promise you that. 00:02:30.410 --> 00:02:32.450 align:middle line:84% Look on us before you lay your money down. 00:02:32.450 --> 00:02:33.020 align:middle line:90% What we cost? 00:02:33.020 --> 00:02:36.260 align:middle line:84% $2,500 be good price, buy what you breed. 00:02:36.260 --> 00:02:40.460 align:middle line:84% Masters, owners, buyers, fathers, sons, 00:02:40.460 --> 00:02:42.140 align:middle line:90% take vengeance on your dollar. 00:02:42.140 --> 00:02:45.080 align:middle line:84% God help me, I be his maid servant. 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:48.050 align:middle line:84% I be his witness to this sale of woman flesh 00:02:48.050 --> 00:02:52.330 align:middle line:90% in the 28th year of my delivery. 00:02:52.330 --> 00:02:52.960 align:middle line:90% Carrie. 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:54.520 align:middle line:90% Look. 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:56.350 align:middle line:90% Wipe your eyes child. 00:02:56.350 --> 00:02:58.810 align:middle line:90% See they finished the bidding. 00:02:58.810 --> 00:03:02.200 align:middle line:90% Money be paid, we is together. 00:03:02.200 --> 00:03:05.860 align:middle line:84% God heard my halting words through the ears 00:03:05.860 --> 00:03:09.240 align:middle line:84% of these deafened people, you and me 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:12.420 align:middle line:90% from this strange pulpit. 00:03:12.420 --> 00:03:19.820 align:middle line:84% Look lively child, we be sold but we ain't bought. 00:03:19.820 --> 00:03:20.750 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:03:20.750 --> 00:03:22.600 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:03:22.600 --> 00:03:41.000 align:middle line:90%