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,

Being walkers with the dawn and mo… Walkers with the sun and morning, We are not afraid of night, Nor days of gloom, Nor darkness—

How quiet It is in this sick room Where on the bed A silent woman lies between two lo… Life and Death,

When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left

The gold moth did not love him So, gorgeous, she flew away. But the gray moth circled the flam… Until the break of day. And then, with wings like a dead d…

It would be nice In any case, To someday meet you Face to face Walking down

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…

Tell all my mourners To mourn in red — Cause there ain’t no sense In my bein’ dead.

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

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

When I was home de Sunshine seemed like gold. When I was home de Sunshine seemed like gold. Since I come up North de

The census man, The day he came round, Wanted my name To put it down. I said, Johnson,

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,