It was right after the arrest,

When the riot broke out.

The people were shouting,

“Let him out!”

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The mother was crying,

“No! Don’t take my son!”

But the cops didn’t listen.

The held him against a gun.

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When in the car,

The poor son was trapped.

Against the door he banged,

On the glass he clapped!

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He banged and smashed,

Until his spine was wrecked.

Then he went,

To meet his death.

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At the hospital,

One by one,

His brain was going.

His spine gone.

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The nurses tried to help him so!

But Freddie,

He was long gone.

He went and was never seen again.

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Then the protests started one by one.

The people saying,

“Freddie, why are you gone?”

For him they’re praying.

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But the protests go on

Killing many people!

Others getting arrested,

Blowing up steeples.

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The streets and the stores

At night

All of Baltimore

Goes to fight!

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The people go until the dawn.

Then the cops, they sure do come.

The people gone to jail were many.

Everyone’s hearts beating like drums!

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To the March of Freddie Gray!

They boarded up stores,

Restaurants,

And people’s doors.

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From the blowing of the bombs.

The screeching of the screams.

The sound of the silence.

The police come in streams.

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To fix the town

That was wrecked

By Freddie’s death,

But then it finally stopped.