1949
A Black Pierrot
Composed by 
William Grant Still
William Grant Still Text by 
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes "A Black Pierrot" is the fifth and final song of William Grant Still's song cycle Songs of Separation.
Text
A Black Pierrot
by Langston Hughes
I am a black pierrot: She did not love me,
So I crept away into the night and the night was black, too.
I am a black pierrot: She did not love me,
So I wept until the red dawn dripped blood over the eastern hills
and my heart was bleeding, too.
I am a black pierrot: She did not love me,
So with my once gay colored soul shrunken like a balloon without air,
I went forth in the morning to seek a new brown love.
I went forth in the morning to seek a new brown love.
I went forth in the morning, I went forth in the morning,
I went forth in the morning to seek a new brown love.
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