Nina Would Know What to Sing About Arizona!

Strange fruit drying/dying/lying in the sand of Arizona...

clipped from theunapologeticmexican.org We Got Thunder and Heavy Bellied Sky Where is Nina Simone when you need her? Arizona needs her. When four young black girls were killed in the Baptist church bombing in 1963, the story goes Nina Simone locked herself in her room and said she wanted to build her own gun. In her book I Got Thunder – Lashonda Barnett who interviewed Simone, says her then husband dissuaded Simone telling her “Music is your weapon.” Four hours later she emerged with Mississippi Goddamn. Can’t you see it Can’t you feel it It’s all in the air Lord have mercy on this land of mine We all gonna get it in due time I don’t belong here I don’t belong there I’ve even stopped believing in prayer Arizona Goddam.