The Loving Kind - Nanci Griffith

They were the loving kind

She was black and he was white

In Virginia nineteen fifty-eight

They found love amongst the hate

Well the law said they could not wed

They married anyway

The sheriff put them both in jail

Separated 'till they made their bail

They changed the heart of a nation

With their wedding vows

From the highest court in the land

Their union would lawfully stand

Simply Mildred and Richard

That’s how they’ll be remembered

They proved that love is truly blind

They were the loving kind

The Lovings lived a quiet life

In their Virginia home

And while the case worked it’s way through the courts

They brought three children to this world

Richard died in seventy-five

Mildred kept their love alive

'Till the spring of two thousand-eight

Fifty years beyond the hate

They changed the heart of a nation

With their wedding vows

From the highest court in the land

Their union would lawfully stand

Simply Mildred and Richard

That’s how they’d be remembered

They proved that love is truly blind

They were the loving kind