Langston Hughes
Fire
Fire,
Fire, Lord!
Fire gonna burn ma soul!
I ain't been good,
I ain't been clean--
I been stinkin', low-down, mean.
Fire
Fire, Lord!
Fire gonna burn ma soul!
Tell me brother,
Do you believe
If you wanta go to heaben
Got to moan an' grieve?
Fire,
Fire Lord!
Fire gonna burn ma soul!
I been stealin,'
Been tellin' lies,
Had more women
Than Pharoah had wives.
Fire,
Fire, Lord!
Fire gonna burn ma soul!
I means Fire, Lord!
Fire gonna burn ma soul!
Late Last Night
Late last night I
Set on my steps and cried.
Wasn't nobody gone,
Neither had nobody died.
I was cryin'
Cause you broke my heart in two.
You looked at me cross-eyed
And broke my heart in two--
So I was cryin'
On account of
You!