It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out, also the job.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.

There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath - America will be! I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.