Song for a Dark Girl

"Song for a Dark Girl" is a song by Dorothy Rudd Moore with text by Langston Hughes from the song cycle Sonnets on Love, Rosebuds, and Death

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Song For a Dark Girl
by Langston Hughes

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.