Same Dream Blues (Ode To Langston Hughes)

Put me to sleep
I says put me back to sleep
and lock the door.

I got some place to be,
got someones to see.

You can’t understand.
You surely can’t understand.

I needs to dream my same dream.
I needs to dream my same dream, I says.

This old life does me no good.
My eyes, they need to be closed, I says.

Finds me a woman I met sometime last night…

No madder how I tell it,
you can’t understand this thang
I know fo’ certain.

I says put me back to sleep
I says put me back to sleep!

Can’t you see
I got some place to be,
got someones to see.