Daybreak In Alabama by Kari Pang

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Daybreak In Alabama

Published on Mar 18, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

DAYBREAK IN ALABAMA

LANGSTON HUGHES

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When I get to be a composer
I'm gonna write me some music about
Daybreak in Alabama

And I'm gonna put the purtiest songs in it
Rising out of the ground like a swamp mist
And falling out of heaven like soft dew.

I'm gonna put some tall tall trees in it
And the scent of pine needles
And the smell of red clay after rain

And long red necks
And poppy colored faces
And big brown arms
And the field daisy eyes

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Of black and white black white black people
And I'm gonna put white hands
And black hands and brown and yellow hands

And red clay earth hands in it
Touching everybody with kind fingers
And touching each other natural as dew

In that dawn of music when I
Get to be a composer
And write about daybreak
In Alabama.

Kari Pang