Did You Cry for Me? Note to a Sharecropper
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Did you cry for me
when none but the crows
was both black and free
in yon cotton rows?
When you saw me hung
did you cry for me
as my body swung
'neath the lynchin' tree?
Such prosperity
must taste mighty sweet
Did you cry for me
when I didn't eat?
Heard you gone some years,
died in poverty
and I cried no tears
Did you cry for me?
Copyright © Lycia Harding | Year Posted 2025
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