Cotton Comes to Harlem
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:04:17
Is everybody here
having a good time?

:04:22
How about
that weather up there?

:04:23
Is it fine enough for you?
:04:26
How about me?
How about deke, your man?

:04:30
How about me?
:04:31
How about me?
:04:34
How about me?
:04:35
Yeah!
Yeah!

:04:37
Am I big enough for you?
:04:53
18 months ago...
:04:55
I was down on my knees in
the white man's jailhouse.

:04:58
Mmm!
Yes!

:04:59
I wasn't down on my knees
in the jailhouse to pray.

:05:02
No!
No!

:05:03
I wasn't even down on
my knees to shoot craps.

:05:06
Ha ha!
Ha ha!

:05:07
Deke o'malley
was down on his knees

:05:10
in the white man's jail
:05:12
cleaning out the
white man's toilet bowl!

:05:13
No!
No!

:05:14
All right!
:05:15
So l-i asked the lord
to help me!

:05:19
To show me the way!
:05:21
And bless my soul, he did!
:05:23
Yeah!
He did!

:05:24
The lord come to me
in a dream!

:05:26
He said,
"deke, I want to use you

:05:29
like I used noah of old!"
:05:32
He said, "deke, I want you
to build an ark

:05:37
and sail my people home!"
:05:38
Yeah!
Yeah!

:05:39
And there she is,
black beauty!

:05:43
Are you black enough
to hear me?

:05:47
Amen! Amen!
:05:49
For 3 months now,
:05:50
in detroit, chicago,
los angeles,

:05:53
baltimore, washington,
:05:55
people have been
standing in line,

:05:57
waitin' and waitin'
:05:58
for a chance to get
on boardblack beauty.


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