Langston Hughes Quote

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.


Daybreak in Alabama, 1940


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...

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...

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...

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...