Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,I heard a Negro play.Down on Lenox Avenue the…
Children, I come back todayTo tell you a story of the long dark wayThat I had to climb, that I…
When the shoe strings breakOn both your shoesAnd you're in a hurry-That's the blues.When you go to buy a candy…
How still,How strangely stillThe water is today,It is not goodFor waterTo be so still that way.
2 and 2 are 4.4 and 4 are 8.But what would happenIf the last 4 was late?And how would it…
Now dreamsAre not availableTo the dreamers,Nor songsTo the singers.In some landsDark nightAnd cold steelPrevailBut the dreamWill come back,And the songBreakIts…
The night is beautiful,So the faces of my people.The stars are beautiful,So the eyes of my people.Beautiful, also, is the…
Because my mouthIs wide with laughterAnd my throatIs deep with song,You do not thinkI suffer afterI have held my painSo…
You say I O.K.edLONG DISTANCE?O.K.ed it when?My goodness, CentralThat was then!I'm mad and disgustedWith that Negro now.I don't pay no…