Jim Crow (banjo)
from Hardtacks CIVIL WAR SONGSTER Companion by The Hardtacks
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The first association a modern audience has with this song is probably its legacy in the unjust “Jim Crow Laws” of the 20th century. However, if we can hold our revulsion & peer through the immediate racist imagery and dialect (admittedly hard as that is for modern listeners), we find some shocking critique and surprisingly liberal views in the lyrics...
~ MORE INFO & ALTERNATE VERSIONS: civilwarfolkmusic.com/2014/08/27/1830-jim-crow-rice ~
~ MORE INFO & ALTERNATE VERSIONS: civilwarfolkmusic.com/2014/08/27/1830-jim-crow-rice ~
lyrics
Should dey get to fighting,
Perhaps de bracks will rise,
For deir wish for freedom
Is shining in deir eyes,
An if de bracks should get free,
I guess they’ll feel some bigger,
An I shall consider it,
A bold troke for de niggar.!
I am for freedom,
An for union altogeder,
Although I am a brack man,
De white is called my broder.
What stuff it is in dem
To make de debil brack,
I’ll prove dat he is white,
In de twinkling of a crack.
Perhaps de bracks will rise,
For deir wish for freedom
Is shining in deir eyes,
An if de bracks should get free,
I guess they’ll feel some bigger,
An I shall consider it,
A bold troke for de niggar.!
I am for freedom,
An for union altogeder,
Although I am a brack man,
De white is called my broder.
What stuff it is in dem
To make de debil brack,
I’ll prove dat he is white,
In de twinkling of a crack.
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from Hardtacks CIVIL WAR SONGSTER Companion,
released October 1, 2013
Marek Bennett (banjo)
Marek Bennett (banjo)
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Mar 2016
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