Considering Leadbelly is a Black American man, I think it's about a white-passing woman who lives like a refugee running from her evil father. She tries to have a normal life but her husband is lynched, and she's forever on the run and at the mercy of men, hiding in the pines going wherever the cold wind blows. He calls her his girl but he knows she really belongs to an evil slaver man and he's doomed like the other men who tried to help her were doomed.
Considering Leadbelly is a Black American man, I think it's about a white-passing woman who lives like a refugee running from her evil father. She tries to have a normal life but her husband is lynched, and she's forever on the run and at the mercy of men, hiding in the pines going wherever the cold wind blows. He calls her his girl but he knows she really belongs to an evil slaver man and he's doomed like the other men who tried to help her were doomed.