Song for a Dark Girl - Audra McDonald

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