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First Line: Good morning, daddy!
Last Line: Y-e-a-h!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks


Good morning, daddy!
Ain't you heard
The boogie-woogie rumble
Of a dream deferred?
Listen closely:
You'll hear their feet
Beating out and beating out a--
You think
It's a happy beat?
Listen to it closely:
Ain't you heard
something underneath
like a--
What did I say?
Sure,
I'm happy!
Take it away!
Hey, pop!
Re-bop!
Mop!
Y-e-a-h!





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