for Martin Luther King Jr.

The drums…Pa-Rum…the rat-tat-tat…of drums…
The Pied Piper…after leading the rats…to death…took
the children…to dreams…Pa-rum Pa-Rum…

The big bass drums…the kettles roar…the sound of
animal flesh…resounding against the wood…Pa-Rum
Pa-Rum…

Kunta Kinte was making a drum…when he was…
captured…Pa-Rum…
Thoreau listened…to a different drum…rat-tat-tat-Pa-
Rum…
King said just say…I was a Drum Major…for peace…
Pa-Rum Pa-Rum…rat-tat-tat Pa-Rum…

Drums of triumph…Drums of pain…Drums of life…
Funeral drums…Marching drums…Drums that call…
Par-Rum Pa-Rum… the Drums that call…rat-tat-tat-tat…
the Drums are calling…Par-Rum Pa-Rum…rat-tat-tat Pa-
Rum…