Congolese beat
beat
beat

of the talking drum and
my ancestral Choctaw Cherokee

tom
tom
tom

I’m a native son dancin’
on soul street to the beat

beat
beat

of the talking drum and
the Choctaw Cherokee

tom
tom
tom

The big dipper & half moon
glow in the indigo sky
as the urban river flows
south to the beat
beat
beat

of the talking drum
and the tom
tom
tom

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