[00:00.00]The Loving Kind - Nanci Griffith [00:08.66]They were the loving kind [00:12.54]She was black and he was white [00:16.43]In Virginia nineteen fifty eight [00:19.99]They found love amongst the hate [00:24.11]Well the law said they could not wed [00:27.97]They married anyway [00:32.15]The sheriff put them both in jail [00:35.57]Separated till they made their bail [00:39.29]They changed the heart of a nation [00:43.97]With their wedding vows [00:47.28]From the highest court in the land [00:51.17]Their union would lawfully stand [00:54.93]Simply Mildred and Richard [00:58.69]That's how they'll be remembered [01:02.70]They proved that love is truly blind [01:07.28]They were the loving kind [01:18.63]The Loving's lived a quiet life [01:22.34]In their Virginia home [01:25.94]And while the case worked its way through the courts [01:29.80]They brought three children to this world [01:33.86]Richard died in seventy five [01:37.33]Mildred kept their love alive [01:41.17]'Till the spring of two thousand eight [01:45.04]Fifty years beyond the hate [01:48.64]They changed the heart of a nation [01:53.25]With their wedding vows [01:56.58]From the highest court in the land [02:00.40]Their union would lawfully stand [02:04.10]Simply Mildred and Richard [02:07.93]That's how they'll be remembered [02:11.90]They proved that love is truly blind [02:16.33]They were the loving kind [02:19.91]They proved that love is truly blind [02:24.00]They were the loving kind