April Rain Song
Let the rain kiss you / Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
I could take the Harlem night
and wrap around you,
Take the neon lights and make a crown,
Take the Lenox Avenue busses,
Taxis, subways,
And for your love song tone their rumble down.
Take Harlem's heartbeat,
Make a drumbeat,
Put it on a record, let it whirl,
And while we listen to it play,
Dance with you till day--
Dance with you, my sweet brown Harlem girl.
Let the rain kiss you / Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
When I get to be a composer / I'm gonna write me some music about
I've known rivers: / I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
I know I am / The Negro Problem