Langston Hughes – Song for a Dark Girl
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.
(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.
About Song for a Dark Girl
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was the leading poet of the literary, artistic, and cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. “Song for a Dark Girl,” an elegy about the lynching of a young black woman, was first published in 1927 at the height of the movement.
