Summertime – DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince (1991) d1133
Back in Philly we be out in the parkA place called the plateau is where everybody goesGuys out hunting and girls doing likewiseHonking at the honey in front of you with the light eyesShe turn around to see what you beeping atIt’s like the summer’s a natural afradesiacAnd with a pen and pad I compose […]
Born not to know – Tony! Toni! Toné! (1988) d1132
Money…have your ownFriends…just for funDrugs…don’t indulgeSex…with the right personWork…all your daysCrime…does not payLove…don’t applyLive…to live you must die
xo / halo – Beyoncé (2020) d1131
In the darkest night hour (in the darkest night hour)I’ll search through the crowd (I’ll search through the crowd)
Decatur, or, round of applause for your stepmother! – Sufjan Stevens (2005) d1123
The sound of the engines and the smell of the grainWe go riding on the abolition grain trainSteven A. Douglas was a great debaterBut Abraham Lincoln was the great emancipator
Colors – Black Pumas (2019) d111
It’s a good day (To be)A good day for me (A good day for me)A good day to see (A good day to see)My favorite colors, colorsMy sisters and my brothers (My sisters and my brothers)They see ’em like no other (See ’em like no other)All my favorite colors
Lift every voice and sing – Melba Moore and friends (1990) d1090
Stony the road we trod,Bitter the chastening rod,Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat,Have not our weary feetCome to the place for which our fathers sighed?We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,Out from […]
Better things – The Kinks (1981) d1077
Here’s hoping all the days ahead Won’t be as bitter as the ones behind you Be an optimist instead And somehow happiness will find you Forget what happened yesterday I know that better things are on the way
Old pine – Ben Howard (2011) d1076
We stoodSteady as the stars in the woodsSo happy-heartedAnd the warmth rang true inside these bonesAs the old pine fell we sangJust to bless the morning
This love won’t break your heart – Annalise Emerick (2011) d1075
If you were lonely give it up‘Cause here we areThis is the kind of love thatDoesn’t break your heart
Lo, how a rose e’er blooming – The Compass Quartet (2017) d1069
It came, a flower bright,Amid the cold of winterWhen half-gone was the night.
