It was a long time ago. I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of me, Bright like a sun—

Here I sit With my shoes mismated. Lawdy—mercy! I’s frustrated!

I could take the Harlem night and wrap around you, Take the neon lights and make a cr… Take the Lenox Avenue busses, Taxis, subways,

I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where love will bless the earth And peace its paths adorn I dream a world where all

I worked for a woman, She wasn’t mean— But she had a twelve—room House to clean. Had to get breakfast,

Harlem Sent him home in a long box— Too dead To know why:

Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt

Only dumb guys fight. If I wasn’t dumb I wouldn’t be fightin’. I could make six dollars a day On the docks

When Susanna Jones wears red her face is like an ancient cameo Turned brown by the ages. Come with a blast of trumphets, J… When Susanna Jones wears red

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…

I’m all alone in this world, she s… Ain’t got nobody to share my bed, Ain’t got nobody to hold my hand— The truth of the matter’s I ain’t got no man.