Will V-Day Be Me-Day Too?
Over There,
World War II.
Dear Fellow Ameris,
I write this letter
Hoping times will be better
When this war
Is through.
Im a Tan-skinned Yank
Driving a tank.
I ask, WILL V-DAY
BE ME-DAY, TOO?
I wear a U. S. uniform.
Ive dohe enemy much harm,
Ive driven back
The Germans and the Japs,
From Burma to the Rhine.
On every battle line,
Ive dropped defeat
Into the Fascists laps.
I am a Negro Ameri
Out to defend my land
Army, Navy, Air Corps--
I am there.
I take munitions through,
I fight--or stevedore, too.
I face death the same as you do
Everywhere.
Ive seen my buddy lying
Where he fell.
Ive watched him dying
I promised him that I would try
To make our land a land
Where his son could be a man--
And thered be no Jim Crow birds
Left in our sky.
So this is what I want to know:
When we see Victlow,
Will you still let old Jim Crow
Hold me back?
When all those fn folks whove waited--
Italians, ese, Danes--are liberated.
Will I still be ill-……（内容加载失败！）
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