The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued

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going down to that church playing with God"

Me and Ann there went outside

and we started playing church

sat down on the bottom step

My brother was a preacher

and we were the members of the church

and he would put on some old glasses

and would put them right here on his nose

He said I want you to jump up

and shout Jesus three times

and I jumped up and shouted

Jesus two times, but when I jumped up the third time

something got ahold of me

I couldn't sit back down

Ann ran in the house

She said "Mama Shirley Ann is out there

playing with Lord"

Mama came to the door

and she looked out there and saw me

shouting and dancing all over

the backyard tears running down my face

Mama looked out there and she said

"She ain't playing this time"

Hallelujah!

I remember Mama in a happy way (I remember mama) I remember Mama in a happy way (I remember mama)

I remember my mama

I remember Mama in a happy way

Written by Shirley Caesar Williams, B. Sterling, and Michael

Edward Mathis.

Oh! My Pa-Pa

Eddie Fisher

Oh, my papa, to me, he was so wonderful

Oh, my papa, to me, he was so good

No one could be, so gentle and so lovable

Oh, my papa, he always understood