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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