Hannah Kudjoe Lyrics

Remember my name

Remember my sweat

Remember my place in history

Remember me today tomorrow forever

Remember me

Remember

Remember it was I who launched crowds into believers

Remember it was I who swelled women into an army of voters

Remember it was I, Hannah Kudjoe, whose God-given back you rallied on for members

Remember

Remember it was I who fashioned freedom into small-bite speeches for easy consumption

Who trailed the breadth of trains with the gospel of self-governance

Who convinced people they didn't need to be white or male or blue collared for their vote to matter

Remember

Remember it was I who remembered the big six when their forgetting was being sanctioned

It was I who transmuted a broken people into a multitude of petitioners

It was I who chanted liberation songs into the bones of the masses

Remember it was I who welded anguish into action and ensured the success of the revolution

You forgot you needed help

You forgot I helped

You forgot the revolution rested on my shoulders too

You forgot I was never in the footnote

You forgot sanctioning my forgetting disallows you from not knowing how you disappeared me

So remember

Remember that if your books do not mention me, they can afford to be rewritten

Remember you're hoarding my sweat in their bloated praise

Remember me in the songs of independence

Remember me in the fabric of our collective freedom

Remember me to the third and fourth generation

Remember me into continued existence

Remember

Remember my name

Remember my sweat

Remember my place in history

Remember me today tomorrow forever

Remember me

In your books

In your songs

Remember me