Black girl, black girl, tell me no lies,
Where did you sleep last night
In the pines, in the pines,
Where the sun never shines
To shiver, the whole night through

Her husband was a railroad man,
Killed at the driving wheel
She found his body all crushed & torn
Under the twisted steel

It caused her to weep, it caused her to moan
It caused her to lose her mind
When she thought of how she lost her man,
So brave, so gentle & kind

Now she wonders alone beneath the trees,
And is happy to mourn her man
And the cold wind howls to chill her bones
And sea mist hangs over her head

Black girl, black girl, Where will you go
She goes where the cold wind blows
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun never shines
To shiver, the whole night through

Black girl, black girl, Where will you go
To go where the cold wind blows
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun never shines
To shiver, the whole night through

