Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
Music: Harry T. Burleigh (1866–1949) · Words: Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“Who are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly
human, With your woollywhite and turban'd
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The words
“Who are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly
human, With your woollywhite and turban'd
head, and bare bony feet? Why rising by the
roadside here, do you the colors greet?”
“Who are you dusky woman?”
(’Tis while our army lines Carolina’s sands
and pines, Forth from thy hovel door thou
Ethiopia com’st to me,
As under doughty Sherman I march tow’rd the
sea.)
“Me master, years a hundred since,
from my parents sunder’d,
sunder’d,
A little child, they caught me
as the savage beast is caught;
Then hither ’cross the sea the cruel slaver
brought me
“Me a little child
the cruel slaver brought.”
No further does she say, but lingering all
the day, Her highborne turban’d head she wags,
and rolls her darkling eye,
And court’sies to the regiments,
the guidons moving by,
“What is it fateful woman, so blear,
hardly human? Why wag your head with turban
bound, yellow, red, and green? Are the things
so strange and marvelous
you see
or have seen,
or have seen?”
About this song
- Music
- Harry T. Burleigh (1866–1949) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Walt Whitman (1819–1892) (dates as LiederNet Archive states them)
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1915, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 4:13
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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- Not offered in
- Spain, France, Mexico, Colombia, Egypt, Argentina, Chile, Bangladesh, Algeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the member states of the Bangui Agreement (OAPI), Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea, and wherever the site has not read the law
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