# Ethiopia Saluting the Colors

- Music: Harry T. Burleigh (died 1949)
- Words: Walt Whitman (died 1892)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6565727

## 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?”  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).