Discover the story of the song > In the Pines – fantastic negrito

The song is about a man asking a black girl where she slept last night, and she responds that she slept in the pines where the sun doesn't shine and shivered the whole night through. The man asks her again where she will go, and she says to the place where the cold winds blow in the pines. The song mentions her man being gone and the difficulties she faces raising her child alone. Ultimately, the song ends with the repetition of the line about the pines where the sun doesn't shine.