ruby's shoes

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ruby's shoes would take her, a mile or so to school every day, where the white people hated her, they'd scream and hold signs and tell her to go away, but ruby's will was stronger, than the bigots with the signs could ever know, she stopped every morning on the corner, and prayed that someday the pain would go, and she'd stop and she'd pray, that all the hatred would go away, she was only six years old but she knew, walk a mile in ruby's shoes, ruby sat alone in the classroom, she never dreamed the other children wouldn't come, they hated her for the color of her skin, well color is such an amazing illusion, she'd stop and she'd pray, that all the hatred would go away, she was only six years old but she knew, walk a mile in ruby's shoes, now ruby knew about dorothy, and the ruby shoes that she wore, she wondered about oz sometimes, well, well no other child ever walked her shoes before, and she'd stop and she'd pray, that all the hatred would go away, she was only six years old but she knew, walk a mile in ruby's shoes, ruby, if birds can always fly, why oh why can't you and i?, ruby's shoes would take her, a mile or so to school every day, where the white people hated her, they'd scream and hold signs and tell her to go away, and she'd stop and she'd pray, that all the hatred would go away, she'd stop and she'd pray, that no other children would be raised this way, ruby's shoes, if birds can fly, then why oh why, if birds can fly then why oh why can't i