I ain't down yet! Out of that ball!
Get down Molly holler let go!
I ain't, I ain't never have with anybody or nobody!
I ain't no down And even if I was,
You'll sure never hear it from me!
Oh I hate that word down!
But I love the word up!
'Coz up means hope.
And that's just when I got hope.
For some place bigger
For some place, I don't know
That's cleaner and shinier and hell.
If I got to eat catfish all my life.
Can't I have an awful plate once?
In a, in a red silk dress.

When there is girl
Enough for me to wear one,
And then, someday, when all my might
And all my Mame.

I'm goin' to learn to read and write,
I'm goin' to see what there is to see,
So if you go from nowhere
On the road to somewhere
And you meet anyone
You know it's me.

I'm goin' to move
From place to place
And find a house
With a golden stair
And if that house is red
And has a big brass bed
I'm livin' there!

Well now, who do you think you are?
I could be anybody even a queen if I wanted to be.
We've just been wrestling with the queen if you please.
Who'd recognize them with all that bird on her knees.
And with her mop egg. And all that call.
And that gives scraps right, she calls her no.
A queen could never be queen without any throne.
So here's the fanciest throne that you'll ever own.
Here is your scepter, here is your crown.
Now won't you please sit down?

To show! That you know!
You got to show them
You know you know!

I'm goin' to learn to read and write,
I'm goin' to see what there is to see,
So if you go from nowhere
On the road to somewhere
And you meet anyone
You know it's me.

I'm goin' to move
From place to place
And find a house
With a golden stair
And if that house is red
And has a big brass bed
I'm livin' there!