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Away, away, away down South in Dixie! Both Union and Confederate composers produced war versions of the song during the American Civil War . These variants standardized the spelling and made the song more militant, replacing the slave scenario with specific references to the conflict or to Northern or Southern pride.
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Way Down South in Dixie To a cross roads tree. In the first stanza of ‘Song For a Dark Girl’ the speaker, a young woman, describes the death of her “black young lover”.
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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. From Caroling Dusk (Harper & Brothers, 1927), edited by Countee Cullen.
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...
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.
“Song for a Dark Girl” is an elegy with a regular rhyme scheme. The poem has a total of 12 lines, distributed among three quatrains. Each quatrain presents a complete idea and begins with a refrain, “Way Down South in Dixie.”
