Daybreak In Alabama
When I get to be a composer / I'm gonna write me some music about
The Blues
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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
And you've lost the dime you had-
Slipped through a hole in your pocket somewhere-
That's the blues, too, and bad!
More poems by Langston Hughes
Merry-Go-Round
COLORED CHILD AT CARNIVAL / Where is the Jim Crow section
I, Too, Sing America
I, too, sing America. / I am the darker brother.
Dream Variations
To fling my arms wide / In some place of the sun,