To Marian Anderson 1 The Negro Speaks Of Rivers LANGSTON HUGHES* HOWARD SWANSON Moderato (with steady rhythm) Piano decrese: £ riv-ers: ry Te known riv-ers: —___ An-cient as the world and e @ : E FE = e per re one “I ow 41 oe old-er thanthe flow of hu-manblood in hu-man uF ae pT ae & & & r © fem “The ron Keg” sp 98 by lt AR ed pom Copyright © 1949 by Weintraub Music Company. Copyright renewed. Used with permision. International Copyright Secuted A Rights Reserved Printed in U. 8. A. t wl owAn-cient as the world and old - er than the flow—______ of hu-man blood i FR, VT ROT by = ; SS SSS And old~ er than the flow of b == 3 = 4 : = ——— t t t => hu- man blood in hu-man — veins. ‘My soul has grown deep like the “meno |mosso ?F* OF 8 con moto oH oN ae ( 7 crese. molto pith a pid f, I bathed in the Eu - phra - te: when dawns were young, = SJ ewe pitt apis vara lis Sf> = P =—— built my hut near the it lulled me to sleep. > g cresc. molto looked up on the Nite, And raised the | Pyr-a - mids— % Jodi =F erese. moltoPP. - “ZL went down to New Or - leans, Went down81 retrospective ——n And I've seen its mud-dy bos-om turn all gold-en in the sun - set. atempo erese. molto a An - cient, dus-ky > > has grown deep _ like the riv- ers, = SP decrese.