Just give me a cool drink of water 'fore i diiie Oh pray my wings are gonna fit me well And still I rise Shaker, why don't you sing? I shall not be moved

Part 1: When Love is a Scream of Anguish- They Went Home- The Gamut- A Zorro Man- To a Man- Late October- No Loser, No Weeper- When You Come to Me- Remembering- In a Time- Tears- The Detached- To a Husband- Accident- Let's Majeste- After- The Mothering Blackness- On Diverse Deviations- Mourning Grace- How I Can Lie to You- Sounds Like Pearls
Part 2: Just Before the World Ends- When I Think About Myself- On a Bright Day, NExt Week- Letter to an Aspiring Junkie- Miss Scarlett, Mr. Rhett and Other Latter-Day Saints- Time-Square-Shoeshine-Composition- Faces- To a Freedom Fighter- Riot: 60's- We Saw Beyond Our Seeming- Black Ode- No No No No- My Guilt- The Calling of Names- On Working White Liberals- Sepia Fashion Show- The Thirteens (Black)- The Thirteens (White)- Harlem Hopscotch

Part One: Pickin em up and layin em down- Here's to adhering- On reaching forty- The telephone Part 2: Passing time- Now long ago- Greyday- Poor girl- Come. And be my baby- Sensed of insecurity- Alone- Communication I- Communication II- Wonder- A conceit- Part 3: Request- Africa- America- For us, who dare not dare- Lord, in my heart- Artful pose Part 4: The couple- The pusher- Chicken-Licken- Part 5: I almost remember- Prisoner- Woman Me- Johm J- Southeast Arkanasia- Song for the old ones- Child dead in old seas- Take time out- Elegy- Reverses- Little Girl Speakings- The winter day

Part 1: touch me, life, not softly- a kind of love, some say- country lover- rememberance- where we belong, a duet- phenomenal woman- men- refusal- just for a time- Part 2: traveling- junkie monkey reel- the lesson- California prodigal- my Arkansas- through the inner city to the suburbs- lady luncheon club- momma welfare roll- the singer will not sing- willie- to beat the child was bad enough- woman work- one more round- the traveler- kin- the memory- Part 3: and still I rise- still i rise- ain't that bad?- life doesn't frighten me- bump d'bump- on aging- in retrospect- just like job- call letters: Mrs. V. B.- Thank You, Lord

Awaking in New York- A good woman feeling bad- The health-food diner- A Georgia song- Unmeasured tempo- Amoebaean for Daddy- Recovery- Impeccable conception- Caged bird- Avec Merci, Mother- Arrival- A plagued journey- Starvation- Contemporary announcement- Prelude to a Parting- Martial choreagraph- To a suitor- Insomniac- Weekend glory- The lie- Prescience- Family Affairs- Changes- Brief Innocence- The Last Decision- Slave Coffle- Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?- My Life Has Turned Blue

Worker's song- Human family- Man bigot- Old folks laugh- Is love- Forgive- Insignificant- Love letter- Equality- Coleridge Jackson- Why are they happy people?- Son to mother- Known to Eve and me- These yet to be United States- Me and my work- Changing- Born that way- Televised- Nothing much- Glory falls- London- Savior- Many and More- The new house- Our grandmothers- Preacher, don't send me- Fightin' was natural- Loss of love- Seven women's blessed assurance- In my Missouri- They ask why- Ailey, Baldwin, Floyd, Killens, and Mayfield