These Moccasins

Ingemar Olsson

Come and try them on - these moccasins I’m wearing
Put yourself in my place for a day
Try and understand the life that I am leading
Before you say the things you want to say

Come and try them on - my moccasins I’m wearing
Walk along the roads I have to walk
If you dare to leave the ways that are familiar
You’ll have a different outlook when you talk

When you met me and you heard me for the first time
Then you thought you knew just who I had to be
I had only sung the first two lines of music
When you said that you could write the rest for me

I don’t know how you have gotten your opinion
And believe the things about me that you do
But the only way to find the truth between us
Is for you to see like me and me like you

Come and try them on - these moccasins I’m wearing
Put yourself in my place for a day ...

When you feel the rocky road that I must travel
With the struggles and pain that I must face
When our spirits start to hurt the way our feet do
We can see beyond the differences of race

You will know it if you only dare to listen
In the echo of your own voice that you hear
It’s a song that will continue to be written
Until the music and the harmony are clear

Come and try them on -- these moccasins I’m wearing
Put yourself in my place for a day ...
Come and try them on -- these moccasins I’m wearing
Walk along the roads I have to walk ...


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