Got the whole world in her strong brown arm
Sweet sweet name
Spinnin' 'round like a bronze top
Rockin' (just-a-rockin') never too tired to stop
New Voice o' New Worlds shoutin'
Lawd! Black and Beautiful Be
The heiress of Nettie Vaughn, Yessuh!
Mother to Ralph and Kai
So glad she be sister o' mine
Got the whole wide world in her strong brown arm
Sweet sweet name
Famed like the Ebony Pearl o' Great Price
Sky Heaven and Earth meet in a mind o'
John Biggers paints Leopardskin headbands
Cowrieshell earrings Ghanaian saints
Ideas Protean
Cosmic Rivetin' Functional Passionate Revealin'
Walk! Walk on in Beauty Like the Night
O Woman With the Sweet Sweet Name
Wine dark eyes
Fiery thighs
Syrupy kisses Cocoa expressions
Root beer tears
(Leave her alone
Or know fire and brimstone)
Touch velvet light
Clutch flesh and bone
Then down in the bottom under cotton
Can't ya feel that Underground railroad steel
Walk! In Beauty like the Night Walk on
Sweet sweet name
As sexy KCsax music from Bird's alto axe
Burn on and on and on
In gingersnap flames
J'taime
O Sweet Sweet Name
copyright 2000, Chris Hayden