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Roots season 1 episode 4 soundtrack

Part 4, 3 songs

Chicken George returns to the Lea farm after 20 years. George's son, Tom, nurses a grudge against his father. George and Cyrus join the Memphis Colored Battery. Tom returns home after the war to embark on a new life with his family.

  • Trouble of the World — Mahalia Jackson
    Montage as George and Matilda are made wait the day out before seeing one another with Matilda works at the Murray house as George waits along side the road; Matilda runs out to George at the end of the day, they embrace.
  • Before the Sun Goes Down — Michel Larue
    As the black and white Union soldiers hold in surrender the Confederate soldiers being to fire upon the black Union soldiers, George brags Cyrus as tries to charge forward to run and save themselves.
  • Born This Way — Bear and a Banjo
    End credits.
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