I, Too, Sing America

Song Cycle by Serge Hovey (1920 - 1989)

?. I, too, sing America  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
I, too sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes.
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I'll [be]1 at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.

Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed. --

[I, too, am America.]2

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1 Bonds: "sit"
2 omitted by Bonds.

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?. Night: Four Songs  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Night of the two moons
And the seventeen stars,
Night of the day before yesterday
And the day after tomorrow,
Night of the four songs unsung:
  Sorrow! Sorrow!
  Sorrow! Sorrow!

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?. Silhouette  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Southern gentle lady,
Do not swoon. 
They've just hung a black man
In the dark of the moon. 
They've hung a black man
To a roadside tree
In the dark of the moon
For the world to see
How Dixie protects
Its white womanhood. 
Southern gentle lady,
Be good! Be good!

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?. Stars  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
O, sweep of stars over Harlem streets,
O, little breath of oblivion that is night.
      A city building
      To a mother's song.
      A city dreaming
      To a lullaby.
Reach up your hand, dark boy, and take a star.
Out of the little breath of oblivion
      That is night,
      Take just
      One star.

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?. The Dream Keeper  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Bring me all of your dreams,
You dreamer,
Bring me all your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.

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?. Border line  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
I used to wonder
About living and dying --
I think the difference lies
Between tears and crying.

I used to wonder
About here and there --
I think the distance
Is nowhere.

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