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When I get to be a composer I’m gonna write me some music abou… Daybreak in Alabama And I’m gonna put the purtiest so… Rising out of the ground like a sw…
It would be nice In any case, To someday meet you Face to face Walking down
I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the w… flow of human blood in human veins My soul has grown deep like the ri… I bathed in the Euphrates when da…
I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the w… My soul has grown deep like the ri… I bathed in the Euphrates when da… I built my hut near the Congo and…
Harlem Sent him home in a long box— Too dead To know why:
How quiet It is in this sick room Where on the bed A silent woman lies between two lo… Life and Death,
I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank. I came up once and hollered!
Now dreams Are not available To the dreamers, Nor songs To the singers.
I work all day, Said Simple John, Myself a house to buy. I work all day, Said Simple John,
Let’s go see Old Abe Sitting in the marble and the moon… Sitting lonely in the marble and t… Quiet for ten thousand centuries,… Quiet for a million, million years…
Landlord, landlord, My roof has sprung a leak. Don’t you 'member I told you abou… Way last week? Landlord, landlord,
My name is Johnson— Madam Alberta K. The Madam stands for business. I’m smart that way. I had a
Night funeral In Harlem: Where did they get Them two fine cars? Insurance man, he did not pay—
That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are w… Her bandage hides two festering so… That once perhaps were eyes.
You and your whole race. Look down upon the town in which y… And be ashamed. Look down upon white folks And upon yourselves