Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) They hung…

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

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“Song for a Dark Girl” (l. 1-4), from Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927)

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