Modena City Ramblers - Ebony lyrics

rate me

I was born where the rain still brings the smell of the ebony

In a never-ending land with the sun always shining

It's been said I'm as pretty as a black pearl

When the African moon is high and my eyes are to the heavens.

I was sold when I was 16, I kissed my mother and never looked back

Then I got lost in the city with all its people and its bright lights

Soon I learned that my hopes and dreams, they were all just illusions

And for me to survive I would have to leave my country.

Ebony

Jack O's bar, Parade hotel, from me une

Ebony

I spent all I had on the journey and my papers

With the hundred migrants lost by the time we reached Palermo

I took farm on a hill, I picked oranges and lemons

And I worked till late at night for a bed and little money

Ebony

It's a long long night

It's a long long time

It's a long long road

Ebony

With non hope left one day I want off to Bologna

There I met a friend who helped me find my fortune

So I changed the way I looked, I changed my way of being

And now everybody knows, black girl costs little money

Ebony

Jack O's bar, Parade hotel, for me une

Ebony...

Ebony...

It's a long long night

It's a long long time

It's a long long road

Ebony

If you come to Bologna, please remember my story

On the boulevard at night where my dreams have turned to teardrops

Ebony...