About
African songs
These lyrics are inspired by selections in Ants Will Not Eat your Fingers: A Selection of Traditional African Poems edited by Leonard W. Doob (New York: Walker and Company, 1966).
Road songs
Liz and Tom wrote these songs for fun. Many were first improvised on road trips.
Links and shortcuts
In any page, you can click on or touch links to jump around in this book.
- Each entry in the contents links to the poem.
- The title for a poem links back to the contents, highlighting the entry for the poem.
- Words in the headers and footers link to the index, the contents, a listing of books by the author, to this page, and to the previous and next poems in the book.
You may find the following keyboard equivalents to be convenient. Here I use the symbol ⌥ for the option key on Mac/OS or the alt key on Windows, ⇧ for the shift key, and ⏎ for the return (enter) key. Arrow keys are ◄ (left), ► (right), ▲ (up), and ▼ (down).
Context | Keys | Jump to / Behavior |
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cover | ⌥ ◄ | Books by Tom Sharp |
⌥ ▲ | About Tom Sharp | |
⌥ ► | about this book (this page) | |
⌥ ▼ | contents | |
⇧ ⌥ ▼ | contents | |
contents | ⇧ ⌥ ▲ | cover |
⌥ ▼ | select the next item in the contents | |
⌥ ▲ | select the previous item in the contents | |
⌥ ► | open the selected page | |
⌥ ⏎ | open the selected page | |
poem | ⇧ ⌥ ▲ | the section in the contents |
⌥ ◄ | contents | |
⌥ ▲ | open the previous page | |
⌥ ▼ | open the next page |
The authors
Liz Douthitt Sharp is a talented singer and lover of music.
Tom Sharp is a member of Seldovia Village Tribe, and is the author of numerous books.
You may email tom/AT/liztomsharp/DOT/-c-o-m-/ to share comments on this work.