To A Brown Boy
That brown girl's swagger gives a
To beauty like a Queen,
Lad, never damn your body's
When loveliness is seen
That brown girl's swagger gives a
To beauty like a Queen,
Lad, never damn your body's
When loveliness is seen
Let's straighten this out, my little man,
And reach an agreement if we can
I entered your door as an honored guest
My shoes are shined and my trousers are pressed,
I woke before the morning,
I was happy all the day,
I never said an ugly word, but smiled and stuck to play
And now at last the sun is going down behind the wood,
The little toy dog is covered with dust, But sturdy and stanch he stands;
And the little toy soldier is red with rust, And his musket molds in his hands
Time was when the little toy dog was new And the soldier was passing fair,
And ...
Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon
"Said the old man, "I do that too
"The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants
""I do that too," laughed the little old man
Come back to me, mother
why linger
From thy poor little blind boy, the long weary day
I mark every footstep,
The little boy was looking for his voice
(The King of the crickets had it
)In a drop of waterthe little boy was looking for his voice
I do not want it for speaking with;
Well, my daddy left home when I was three,and he didn't leave much to Ma and me,just this old guitar and a bottle of booze
Now I don't blame him because he run and hid,but the meanest thing that he ever did wasbefore he left he went and named...
In Baltimore there lived a boy
He wasn't anybody's joy
Although his name was Jabez Dawes,
His character was full of flaws
'Twas on a Mountain, near the Western
An
EN dwelt
A solitary
After the whipping he crawled into bed,
Accepting the harsh fact with no great weeping
How funny uncle's hat had looked striped red
He chuckled silently
"Father, father, where are you going
Oh do not walk so fast
Speak, father, speak to you little boy, Or else I shall be lost
" The night was dark, no father was there, The child was wet with dew;