#Americans #Blacks
How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water
Tell all my mourners To mourn in red — Cause there ain’t no sense In my bein’ dead.
Here I sit With my shoes mismated. Lawdy—mercy! I’s frustrated!
Where is the Jim Crow section On this merry—go—round, Mister, cause I want to ride? Down South where I come from White and colored
I am your son, white man! Georgia dusk And the turpentine woods. One of the pillars of the temple f… You are my son!
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…
Have you dug the spill Of Sugar Hill? Cast your gims On this sepia thrill: Brown sugar lassie,
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…
Harlem Sent him home in a long box— Too dead To know why:
When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left
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…
Night funeral In Harlem: Where did they get Them two fine cars? Insurance man, he did not pay—
How quiet It is in this sick room Where on the bed A silent woman lies between two lo… Life and Death,
God in His infinite wisdom Did not make me very wise— So when my actions are stupid They hardly take God by surprise
