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COTTON SONG by JEAN TOOMER

Poet Analysis

First Line: COME, BROTHER, COME. LETS LIFT IT
Last Line: Come, brother, roll, roll
Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICANS; NEGROES; AMERICAN BLACKS;

Come, brother, come. Lets lift it;
Come now, hew it! roll away!
Shackles fall upon the Judgment Day
But lets not wait for it.
God's body's got a soul,
Bodies like to roll the soul,
Cant blame God if we dont roll,
Come, brother, roll, roll!
Cotton bales are the fleecy way
Weary sinner's bare feet trod,
Softly, softly to the throne of God,
We aint agwine t wait until th Judgment Day!
Nassur; nassur,
Hump.
Eoho, eoho, roll away!
We aint agwine t wait until th Judgment Day!"
God's body's got a soul,
Bodies like to roll the soul,
Cant blame God is we dont roll,
Come, brother, roll, roll



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