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,

To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance Till the white day is done. Then rest at cool evening

I take my dreams and make of them… and a round fountain with a beauti… And a song with a broken heart and… Do you understand my dreams? Sometimes you say you do,

Fine living . . . a la carte? Come to the Waldorf—Astoria! LISTEN HUNGRY ONES! Look! See what Vanity Fair says… new Waldorf—Astoria:

When the shoe strings break On both your shoes And you’re in a hurry— That’s the blues. When you go to buy a candy bar

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