Duke Ellington Addresses the Fields of Alabama

ELLINGTON.

Come Sunday

The light is going

To really break you open

Really break you apart

Really move

The blood out from the fields

There is nothing

No there is nothing

Like cotton husks

Like cotton hands

To make them want

To hear music

Nothing! Nothing! Nothing!

You broke

Our backs

A B-flat!

A heartbreaking B-flat

For the fields of Alabama