Love Train

Aretha, Marvin

and Smokey form

 the Rushmore Mount

of soul

James Brown

the elder statesman

Etta James

her voice of gold

Prince and

Jimmy Ruffin

there standing in

the wings

Curtis Mayfield

‘It’s All Right’

The Windy City

brings

Al Green

is for the ladies

with fantasy

in song

Glady’s Knight

the smoothest silk

with Ben E. King

along

Levi Stubbs

and Martha Reeves

still warming up

out back

As Stevie Wonder

and Michael J

keep soul’s love train

— on track

(Memory Of The O’Jays At The Uptown Theater: April, 1971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsYOAIR4L_w