#Americans #Blacks
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
I will take you heart. I will take your soul out of your… As though I were God. I will not be satisfied With the touch of your hand
She, In the dark, Found light Brighter than many ever see. She,
I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank. I came up once and hollered!
By what sends the white kids I ain’t sent: I know I can’t be President.
I play it cool I dig all jive. That's the reason I stay alive. My motto
I was so sick last night I Didn’t hardly know my mind. So sick last night I Didn’t know my mind. I drunk some bad licker that
How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run?
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…
When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left
He glides so swiftly Back into the grass— Gives me the courtesy of road To let me pass, That I am half ashamed
From Christ to Ghandi Appears this truth— St. Francis of Assisi Proves it, too: Goodness becomes grandeur
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…
Goin’ down the road, Lawd, Goin’ down the road. Down the road, Lawd, Way, way down the road. Got to find somebody