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Rudolph Reed was oaken	A
His wife was oaken too	B
And his two good girls and his good little man	A
Oakened as they grew	B
	-
I am not hungry for berries	C
I am not hungry for bread	D
But hungry hungry for a house	E
Where at night a man in bed	D
	-
May never hear the plaster	F
Stir as if in pain	A
May never hear the roaches	G
Falling like fat rain	A
	-
Where never wife and children need	H
Go blinking through the gloom	I
Where every room of many rooms	J
Will be full of room	I
	-
Oh my home may have its east or west	K
Or north or south behind it	L
All I know is I shall know it	L
And fight for it when I find it	L
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The agent's steep and steady stare	M
Corroded to a grin	A
Why you black old tough old hell of a man	A
Move your family in	A
	-
Nary a grin grinned Rudolph Reed	H
Nary a curse cursed he	N
But moved in his House With his dark little wife	O
And his dark little children three	N
	-
A neighbor would look with a yawning eye	P
That squeezed into a slit	L
But the Rudolph Reeds and children three	N
Were too joyous to notice it	L
	-
For were they not firm in a home of their own	A
With windows everywhere	M
And a beautiful banistered stair	M
And a front yard for flowers and a back for grass	Q
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The first night a rock big as two fists	R
The second a rock big as three	N
But nary a curse cursed Rudolph Reed	H
Though oaken as man could be	N
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The third night a silvery ring of glass	Q
Patience arched to endure	S
But he looked and lo small Mabel's blood	T
Was staining her gaze so pure	S
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Then up did rise our Roodoplh Reed	H
And pressed the hand of his wife	O
And went to the door with a thirty four	U
And a beastly butcher knife	O
	-
He ran like a mad thing into the night	V
And the words in his mouth were stinking	W
By the time he had hurt his first white man	A
He was no longer thinking	W
	-
By the time he had hurt his fourth white man	A
Rudolph Reed was dead	D
His neighbors gathered and kicked his corpse	X
Nigger his neighbors said	D
	-
Small Mabel whimpered all night long	Y
For calling herself the cause	Z
Her oak eyed mother did no thing	W
But change the bloody gauze	A2

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