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The Good Lord Bird season 1 episode 2 soundtrack

A Wicked Plot, 2 songs

Separated from Brown’s army, Onion and fellow slave Bob leave the fight in Kansas only to cross paths with pro-slavery “red shirts” who escort them to the slave-trading town of Pikesville, Missouri. Onion is taken under the wing of Pie, a mixed-race prostitute working out of the local hotel, who instructs him in the ways of the world despite her discovering his dangerous secret. Onion soon finds himself enmeshed in a mounting slave insurrection where he learns the consequences of his own actions.

  • I Shall Be Released — Nina Simone
    Sibonia is left by the former church minister to her fate, hanging, for plotting against the whites of the town.
  • Sweet Thang — Shuggie Otis
    (0:43) John Brown kills others as he leaves town but, at Onion's call, spares the minister; End Credits.

Theme Song

Come On Children, Let's Sing
Mahalia Jackson