1961
Prayer
Composed by 
H. Leslie Adams
H. Leslie Adams Text by 
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes Nightsongs Song Collection
"Prayer" is the first song of H. Leslie Adams' song cycle Nightsongs: Six Afro-American Songs.
Text
Prayer
by Langston Hughes
I ask you this:
Which way to go?
I ask you this:
Which sin to bear?
Which crown to put
Upon my hair?
I do not know,
Lord God,
I do not know.
–The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, p. 51
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