#Americans #Blacks
Love Is a ripe plum Growing on a purple tree. Taste it once And the spell of its enchantment
I would liken you To a night without stars Were it not for your eyes. I would liken you To a sleep without dreams
I went to the Gypsy’s. Gypsy settin’ all alone. I said, Tell me, Gypsy, When will my gal be home? Gypsy said, Silver,
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow… I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other ni… By the pale dull pallor of an old…
How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water
My old man’s a white old man And my old mother’s black. If ever I cursed my white old man I take my curses back. If ever I cursed my black old mot…
'Me an’ ma baby’s Got two mo’ ways, Two mo’ ways to do de Charleston!… Da, da, Da, da, da!
I work all day, Said Simple John, Myself a house to buy. I work all day, Said Simple John,
When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left
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…
God in His infinite wisdom Did not make me very wise— So when my actions are stupid They hardly take God by surprise
You say I O.K.ed LONG DISTANCE? O.K.ed it when? My goodness, Central That was then!
Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt
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…
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