Whether braided, twisted or coiled,
Bast fiber, strong as muscle,
Is useful for holding back a mob,
Dragging cars out of ditches
And in the hands of the South
In the 1930s, for lynching
If looped and knotted to any strong tree.
One springtime in Alabama
As trees bloomed,
White boys who lost a fight on a freight train
Rounded up a posse and hustled nine
Black boys over to the Scottsboro jail,
Aiming to get some justice—
Thirty-cents worth of rope would do.
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