Part 5

We are all created by our Father above And one’s no better than the other When we keepeth His command.

HUMIN TU DE AIR

Raifield, yo aks like a ole time barh Round heah a studen al in despah; No Ise humin tu de air. Stah clean awafum dat pot uv mine, Caus when dah’s wok yo’s hard tu find. Well, sur; ef he ain’t eten my pie I du declah, I ges yo call dat a humin tu de air. Yes, I members de uder dah When Lindy Jones wus don dis wah An yo all had a powful lot tu say, Caus I no’s she am purty an mity fair, But yo’ll lose yo home ef dats humin tu de air. Now I want yo tu tucker an lef me go, An don’t yo nebber cros my doah. Yawll goner make one hungry pair Caus yo can’t make a libben humin tu de air.

IN MY THOUGHTS OF YOU

Now I sit and look in space My brightest hopes has gone to waste, The rose of my dreams Won’t bloom it seems While my mind’s anchored deep In my thoughts of you.

No one knows how my heart does ache, No one sees my nights of wake. The moon is hidden behind the clouds, The stars peep through an all dark shroud In my thoughts of you.

MY DEAREST DARLING RUBY

Fate had lost my treasure In the valley of dehuby, Time led on and there I found My dearest, darling Ruby. All my days I hunted in vain Through ice, sleet, snow and rain. And on the darkest day, This was my pay, My dearest, darling Ruby. Only death can part us dear, If away a moment it seems like a year, Life for me would ne’er be bright, The stars would fail to shine at night Without my dearest, darling, Ruby.

HERE AND THERE

Here’s the rose, that bloomed in the spring, There’s its petals flying. Here’s my heart, that wants your love, There like that flower, it is dying.

Here’s to a day, and its sunshine, There to east is a cloud, There in a moment, it could hide the sun, Here all nature’s heads, will be bowed.

Here’s my thoughts of yesterday, There’s my thoughts of tomorrow, Here the ladder shows a brightness, There goes sorrow.

Look on both The bright and dark side of life And there your faults may be found.

ONE SWEET DREAM

In looking way ahead Into the distant time So beautiful is my thoughts If I can make them rhyme.

Long beside the road Is a bungalow for two, In my wonderful vision ’Twas built for me and you.

My heart was the hammer, My soul clinched the nails, ’Twas finished with my love To withstand the on coming gale.

DARLING EDNA MAY

(To Mr. and Mrs. Poindexter)

How sad was this Christmas, Though for some ’twas a happy day, But mourns a mother and father For their darling Edna May.

But she’s gone on into glory To soar the golden way, She knows no sorrow like mother and father For their darling Edna May.

Though on and on through the distant years, When mother and father are old and gray, Christmas brings saddest memories Of their darling Edna May.

LIFE’S PRETTY WAY

Oh! how nice When the sun is shining bright, To take a long walk While breezes blow light.

It revives your soul, Your heart is gay Strolling the road Of life’s pretty way.

You’ll walk on the grass So beautiful and green, And gone art your memories Of the past winter’s scene.

You’ll enjoy all the love In this bright summer’s day, Wandering the road Of life’s pretty way.

RAS BAYLEM’S SPEECH

Ladies an gentlems, fello citisans, it behooves me wid de mostest ux tudigrad To stood be fo sich coteligent audance, dat it makes me base my talk, down Around John’s tato-pach about de third or de fouf hill, am, am, am. We am interin de war at de mos critical time, And I want all yo colored citisans tu fall rite in line, Don’t bother den slackers cause yo nearins’ dangers do, Dis am de only country dat any uv us know. Stah wah dem Germans cause dah puts foolness in yo head, Gis reach up an kiss O Glorie an wish de Kaiser am dead.

MY DREAM

I thought I’d forgotten you, dearie, But you returned in my golden dream. The distant years faded you in person, But again you’re fresh in memory it seems.

Just like the rose wants morning dew, That’s how my dream makes me want you. Cruel fate and time has drifted us apart, I smile on the world, but no one knows my heart.

Oh! let me dream both night and day, That I may dream my sorrows away Into a land of passing breeze To give my heart one moment’s ease.

A SAILOR’S FATE

Lowered deep was the anchor As the waves rolled high, With thought of loved ones Between each sigh. This was their minds As they gazed into the sky, Making peace with their Savior, For they knew they had to die. Have mercy on us, Lord, as we pray to Thee Save us as we’re descending down, Let us go not, without the holy ground.

Glad hearts often Through broken hearts ring, To teach the voice A little song to sing.

AT EVE

From behind the clouds Peeps the golden sun, To kiss the rose, Because the day is done.

SHE SAID. THEN HE SAID THE REST

Oh! my lovely walk, Down love’s shady way, The birds soft, sweet singing Adds beauty to the day.

TRUE

Have you ever stopped to think, my friend, Of your simple life from beginning to end. It pays us now to pull with strife For youth comes but once in life. There’s two paths up and down the hill To seek one or the other is your own free will.

CUPID

The moment I saw Your dear sweet face, Cupid with its arrow Took its place.

Be not discouraged over life’s hard struggle, Have brighter thoughts and discouragement shrugs.

MY THOUGHTS OF IT

Love is a link, a connector of hearts, Allow no one to tear it apart. It’s a food for heart, soul and mind, True love is ever blind.

THE THOUGHT OF A CHILD

Train your children manners and behavior While around the cradle they creep, Then good tidings will ever follow them After you sleep in the deep.

A GENIUS

On yonder hill sits a genius In heaven’s guiding hand, That pours his thoughts just as he writes His power is God not man.

FOR MY HEART

When the heart is crippled And the soul cannot be raised, Just think of dear old mother That’s the spark that lights the blaze.

ROUND RY ROUND

Just a word of consolation While I dream night and day, Will help me climb the ladder of fame Though the top is far away.

A THOUGHT WE SHOULD HAVE

My heart at times loses a beat, But the trouble will ne’er be known, For I have that much mother wit Each tub has a bottom of its own.

It’s easy to be good in life, But hard to be faultless.

Good thoughts on the mind Should lie deep in the heart.

So bountifully in, flows the word keep peace. Dare not e’er to intrude.

A man who smiles through the deepest of sorrow To his own heart adds a value untold.