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Merry go round [colored child at carnival]
(texte de Langston Hughes, 1942)

Where is the Jim Crow section
On this merry-go-round
Mister, cause I want to ride?
Down South where I come from
White and colored
Can't sit side by side
Down South on the train
There's a Jim Crow car
On the bus we're put in the back
But there ain't no back
To a merry-go-round!
Where's the horse
For a kid that's black?

Hey, Mister, cause I want to ride?
Where's the horse for a kid
Where's the horse for a kid
That's black? That's black

Where is the Jim Crow section
On this merry-go-round
Mister, cause I want to ride?
Down South where I come from
White and colored
Can't sit side by side
Down South on the train
There's a Jim Crow car
On the bus we're put in the back
But there ain't no back
To a merry-go-round!
Where's the horse
For a kid that's black?

Where's the horse for a kid
Where's the horse for a kid
That's black? That's black

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