Annotations for Performance: Volume

And said morning how are you, fine thanks and you

There is the nimbleness of the human spirit

Despite it all black and white, asian, spanish, native american

You may write me down in history

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

Just ’cause I walk like I've got oil wells

Still I'll rise

Do you want to see me broken?

Shoulders falling down like tear drops

Does my sassiness upset you?

Don'e take it so hard just cause I laugh

I am the dream and the hope of the slave

And so naturally,

There I go rising.