# Ethiopia Saluting the Colours

- Music: Charles Wood (died 1926)
- Words: Walt Whitman
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6568070

## 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 colours greet?”  
(’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 toward the sea.)  
“Me master, years a hundred since,  
from my parents sunder’d, A little child,  
they caught me as the savage beast is caught,  
Then  
hither  
me across the sea the cruel slaver brought.”  
No further does she say, but ling’ring all the  
day, Her highborne turban’d head she wags,  
and rolls her darkling eye, And courtesies 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 marvellous you  
see, 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).