Langston Hughes - The Weary Blues

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The stars went out and so did the moon.
The singer stopped playing and went to bed
While the Weary Blues echoed through his head.
He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.

Langston Hughes

The night is beautiful,
So are the faces of my people.

Langston Hughes

I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Langston Hughes

I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Langston Hughes

I got the Weary Blues
And I can't be satisfied.

Langston Hughes

Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
I heard a Negro play.
Down on Lenox Avenue the other night By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy sway.
He did a lazy sway.
To the tune o' those Weary Blues.

Langston Hughes