Ballad of Birmingham

-->Dudley Randall
..A little girl asks her mother if she can go and play on the streets of Birmingham.
..Mother says no, but lets her little girl go to church because she figures that is a safe place.
..While the girl is gone, the mother hears an explosion and runs to the church.
..Some white person blew up the church.
..As the woman is looking for her little girl, she finds her shoe.
Ballad: Narrative poem that was originally meant to be sung.