Caroling Dusk/Song for a Dark Girl

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SONG FOR A DARK GIRL[1]

Way down South in Dixie
 (Break the heart of me)
They hung my black young lover
 To a cross roads tree.

Way down South in Dixie
 (Bruised body high in air)
I asked the white Lord Jesus
 What was the use of prayer.

Way down South in Dixie
 (Break the heart of me)
Love is a naked shadow
 On a gnarled and naked tree.


  1. ↑ By permission of and special arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., authorized publishers.
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