Song for a Dark Girl
Langston Hughes
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| Originale | Irish version of poem by Gabriel Rosenstock |
| SONG FOR A DARK GIRL | DUAN DON CHAILÍN CRÓN |
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| Way Down South in Dixie | Ó dheas ó dheas in Dixie |
| (Break the heart of me) | (Briseann sé mo chroí) |
| They hung my black young lover | Crochadh mo leannán dorcha |
| To a cross roads tree. | Ag Crosaire an Chrainn. |
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| Way Down South in Dixie | Ó dheas ó dheas in Dixie |
| (Bruised body high in air) | (Corp basctha sa ghaoth) |
| I asked the white Lord Jesus | D’fhiafraíos-sa de gheal-Íosa |
| What was the use of prayer. | ‘An fiú an phaidir bhaoth?’ |
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| Way Down South in Dixie | Ó dheas ó dheas in Dixie |
| (Break the heart of me) | (Briseann sé mo chroí) |
| Love is a naked shadow | An grá ina scáil tarnocht |
| On a gnarled and naked tree. | Ar lomaghéag an chama-chrainn. |
