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photo by Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

 

Lena Horne, 1941

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I Got Lena To Sing To Me

 

Too many miles, far away from
home, my girl’s photo in my pocket
mine in her gold locket, above
my bunk, Lena smiling down on
me, my girl, she don’t mind
she knows I love her, she knows
she too is fine

Lena, brown skin beauty, voice
dripping like honey, thinking of
her belting out Stormy Weather
since my girl and I can’t be together
it’s raining artillery all the time.

Lead Belly sang, We Gonna Tear
Old Hitler Down, because he took
the Jews from their home, looks like
he took me from my home too
I’m going back soon as this here
war is through

Jubilee Radio Show, bout to be on
the air, I’m hoping Miss Lena Horne sings
Squeeze Me, because I miss my baby
or One More for the Road until I’m home
I got Lena to sing to me.

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…………..originally published on Jerry Jazz Musician November 12, 2018

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Aurora M. Lewis.is a retiree having worked in finance for 40 years. In her fifties, she received a Certificate in Creative Writing-General Studies, with Honors from UCLA. Aurora’s recent poems, short stories, and nonfiction have been accepted by The Literary Hatchet, Jerry Jazz Musician, The Blue Nib, Trembling in Fear, Jitter Press, Scary Snippets, Copperfield Review to name only a few.

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Listen to Lena Horne sing “Just Squeeze Me”

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