Luther Jackson green
you didn't even in the apartment above me
we smoke cigarettes on the stairs

tell me stories that whipe boys never hear
like when it found the shine
can move north in 1949

on this gentle..got it took em the talent
see the Jackie Robinson play
it was a picture perfect day

in the sunshine in the hate
you didn't understand why those people
were said such horrible things

his death pays no attention to them
turn around to what's a man


The wood black man in the place bar
filled was better in every day
my daddy said if you wanna win in this world

you gotta beat em at the wrong game
Luther Jackson green
with the lost school 1963

in the summer between he worked in
Alabama with Martin Luther king
he met a girl in the summer night

and felt hard when saw each other's eyes
there were people down that really
didn't like the evil black

and she was white
They found her in the ditch


A little outside the town
some stupid memories glass in
the..so roof ain't beating down

he looked me in the eyes..and
turned and walked away
We knew it was better than other pain

We knew it was better than other pain
We knew that the..when the time to walk away
He knew until he changed the rules

oh and now he beat it with the wrong game
He never did lose that feeling inside
you can hear it in his voice,

you can hear it in his eyes
with the move now where's to live
when it's right passed away


And he's running next door to the son
so you're watching..game Luther Jackson

green watch your legs and that was me
and put the black now in the white house
I think he never thought it seem could know

and ever cry I could see tears in his eyes
You dreamed about this moment every single
day of his life yeah..at night in sleep

but it lives long enough to see
America become the kind of..
all he's wanted it to be

He said he could never forget the day
that would beat it with the wrong game


Yeah just like Jackie Robinson like Jackie
Robinson Gotta be bigger than other hand
just like Jackie Robinson ohh gotta be better

than other pen just like Jackie Robinson ohh
gotta find a better way oh just like Jackie
Robinson ohh oh gotta beat it the wrong game

just like Jackie Robinson ohh
oh kind of beat the wrong game
just like Jackie Robinson ohh

kind of beating the wrong game
just like Jackie Robinson
just like Jackie Robinso