Love this music... they sang with all of their heart and soul:) This is what I call SOUL... you can hear how they feel the pain they had endured... hate that things had happened to them.. but in the midst of it all they still had song:)
We always hear how modern American music was influenced by the old black spirituals, but I think an equal influence was the work songs, because they talked about love, unrequited love, and so on.
the emotion and soul makes me want to slap our generation and say "walk straight, shoulders back, head up high and be the man and woman that our forefathers worked thier bones for."
*Be my woman gal I'll Be your Man (x3) Everydays Sunday dollar in your hand In your hand lordy, in your hand Everydays Sunday dollar in your hand Stick to the promise girl that You made me (x3) Won't got married til' uh I go free I go free lordy, I go free Won't got married til' uh I go free Whoa Rosie, hold on gal (x2) *When She walks she reel and Rocks behind (x2) Aint that enough to worry, convicts mind (x2) Whoa Rosie, hold on gal (x2)
Singing was the only way slaves/ prisoners could express their angst over their condition. You can feel the power of their souls in their voice. Break their bodies, break their families but you cannot break their souls.
thank you so much for putting this up. the video i put up in response is my version of another version of Rosie i found on some old field recording somewhere. it was hard to understand the words so i had to fill in the blanks. in a way i think that is what keeps music evolving. more or less i just wanted to thank you and the person that did the other video response. This is great stuff that needs to be kept alive!
This song carries and emotional wall that hits you in the face. I love old, primitive gospel and spirituals. I love history. This music has it all, plus the hardship and pain showing in every note. I don't think it matters who sang this. Just listen. I can hear slaves singing this type of song when working the fields way before the Civil War. What a download! Thank you so much for posting this.
@ama00010 yes. I didn't get that in my comment. I might not have even thought it. Sometimes my brain is disengaged when I hear great music...my kids say it is disengaged much of the time. I listen to this a lot. You CAN hear the hammering...you can hear so much in this song! Thanks for adding something very important that I left out!
@MrRajamuttu yes, and I imagine he was really missing her also. I went to churches where the same type 'call and refrain' songs were sung. The words were different. Usually about Jesus & heaven, but it was the same type of singing. They didn't have songbooks so someone would be the 'leader' & the congregation would answer. These influences got into early blues. Church music became secularized. Anyway,it's fantastic music. It's primitive &has very deep emotions.Thanks for commenting
@olbaidojor Thanks for your comment, but my explanation of 'call & refrain' is just that. Mine. I'm not an expert so I'd check w/some ref books. We were invited anytime to visit this church since my dad was a good friend to many of the ppl.It was in 60's & we'd surprise ppl when we went but were totally accepted.We were up North & not in the Civil Rights 'hot spots'. Just farm country.It was great! The mountain churches in W.Va. do a call & refrain also.It's different, but similar.:)
@olbaidojor Wanted to add I got to lots of different types of churches growing up. Daddy was small country preacher & was unique.He saw people for people. As far back as early 50's (when I was toddler) we always had company frm other countries during his school breaks.I grew up with lots of exposure to lots of different cultures. Ppl that many wouldn't even acknowledge at that time & I didn't even know that! The little church was my favorite & I wished I could have gone every Sunday!
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@JTaper Part I: Be my woman, gal, I be your man, Be my woman, gal, I be your man, Be my woman, gal, I be your man. Every day is Sunday´s dollar in your hand. In your hand, Lordy, in your hand. Every day is Sunday´s dollar in your hand. Stick to the promise, gal, that you made me.(3x) Wasn´t gonna marry me till-a I go free, I go free, Lordy, I go free, Wasn´t gonna marry me till-a I go free. Chorus: Wo -- Rosie, o Lord, gal, Wo -- Rosie, o Lord, gal.
@rock4life119 They're working, something like hammering, hoeing, or such. These songs were often sung to keep them all of the prisoners in rhythm as they worked.
@rock4life119 It was recorded in Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1947. As to how it was recorded, I have no idea. Ask the person that made the video, he might know.
@rock4life119 The lead singer was a convict called "C.B.". He and ten other convicts were working with axes while this was recorded. The song A. Lomax recorded in 1947 at Parchman were recorded with one of the first portable tape machines that came on the market. You´ll find this song on a CD called "Prison Song, Historical Recordings from Parchman Farm 1947-1948, Volume One: Murderous Home" at the Alan Lomax Collection from Rounder Records.
@rock4life119 I´m sorry I don´t know. The information I gave to you is from the booklet of my CD and it´s the only one I have. But as they say in that booklet the names of the prisoners on that record were only "their prison aliases, the nicknames with which they were christened as soon as they entered the pen": Just as Jimpson, Tangle Eye, Fuzzie Red, "22"...
Thank you for posting this song, it is hard to learn about black history and this is one way to educate ourselves. So much have been lost, because it was not documented. Blacks need to know their history.
@busessuck1 your patronising comment's nice and all
but I didnt say that Alan Lomax didnt deserve any credit
White privilege allowed him to have access to recording facilities and aparatus that those black people would not have been able 2hav. the legacy of Slavery and the degredation of Black people compounding their pain & depression into the most sweetest sounding pain that we are now all privileged to hear.
@Applebaum Wow, I can honestly say this is the most intellegent comment I've ever read on youtube. Your statement I think literally defines the plight of all the forgotten Black musicians of this era. I couldn't have put it any better even if I tried.
I love how you described this sound *Compounding pain and depression into the most sweetest sounding pain.* I've always enjoyed listen to these kinds of songs during ruff times...they inspire me.
Just erie to listen to. Driving through the Mississippi delta up to Chicago its amazong to think that these songs dug the levees and towed the cargo up the river from the slave days to the 1950's and maybe the 1980's. Great documentary called The land Where Blues began that out there
everyone is on here arguing over the origin of music..who cares does that change music at all, i don't get how you can hear real music here from the spirit of humanity and still go back and forth as if there is a true difference between black and white or asian and european and any other name we use to seperate ourselves. look at the picture from a whole one earth one galaxy one moon one sun and one love
Part I: Be my woman, gal, I be your man, Be my woman, gal, I be your man, Be my woman, gal, I be your man. Every day is Sunday´s dollar in your hand. In your hand, Lordy, in your hand. Every day is Sunday´s dollar in your hand. Stick to the promise, gal, that you made me.(3x) Wasn´t gonna marry me till-a I go free, I go free, Lordy, I go free, Wasn´t gonna marry me till-a I go free. Chorus: Wo -- Rosie, o Lord, gal, Wo -- Rosie, o Lord, gal.
alan lomax collection or his book has lots of lyrics.book is the land where the blues began.this is also on cd now.might be rare on record but not on cd.lots of these work songs they will sing about Rosie.she is a hooker who they save up there change for .its true good ole rosie :)
Thank you for posting this rare recording. I so long to hear more songs, lost now, some passed down orally I suspect....the rowers songs I would like to hear.
The Lomax's work is incredibly valuable, comparable to Bela Bartok's studying of folk music in Eastern Europe. These recordings are invaluable to American folk history. Anyone who says America has no culture of folk history is mistake. Just take a listen....
given that hardly anyone actually likes eastern european folk, and the fact that it gave rise to no important modern musical forms, I would say the african american folk tradition is far beyond, not comparable to, the european
why the incredibly racist/ethnocentric comment (absolutely uncalled for)???...and i'm pretty sure the meaning and value of "folk music" is not isolated to any particular group...and fyi folk music certainly existed prior to african american slave/prison culture (an incredibly important time period i agree)...but the great thing about music is that is should transcend bigotry and hatred, or in theory at least...
if I were to say that Russian lit of the era Gogol to Tolstoy was comparable to the african american lit of the harlem Renaissance that would be racist and absurd as those russians were far beyond anything going on in african american lit. Likewise, the african amercian musical traditions go way beyond anything else in folk (or anything other than classical, which is equal to jazz which evolved from african american folk), so your comment is a sort of backhand racist compliment.
Diomedes, you obviously don't know shit about the history of music. Just to name one small thing, Jazz , blues, rock and such wouldn't exist without europe, because diatonal music was created in europe. Oh yes, Chords for instance. Nobody with a sound mind takes away cred from the african influences of modern music. It is of course a huge part of it. But so is european. So check out the facts before you start talking shit. But you're obviously very bitter about something.
you're talking about the elements or building blocks of modern music. they were put together by african americans with no significant influence from whites. saying our music was 'influenced 'by us is absurd and shows your perspective quite clearly
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African-Americans have a lot of white blood and a lot of white culture. Anyone claiming otherwise has an agenda and doesn't give a shit about the facts.
The correct term is "diatonic". But chords were not "invented" in Europe. The xylophone of Africa, the pan pipes of the Olmecs, the gamelan of Indonesia, the koto of Japan, were all invented b4 these places had European influence.Surely u cannot assume that some1 who owned a string instrument or xylophone-like instrument wud only pluck 1 string or strike 1 bar at a time until they met a European? Yes, Jazz uses Euro modes and scales, but the chord structure is clearly African at times.
i am who iam the prodigy of the son of sam.. i musn't give a ,damn in like a lion , out like a lamb...... hte weAK LINK IN THE CHAIN THAT SENT 500 FREE OVER THE PLANK INTO THE WATER WHERE I HOLD MY HEAD UP ABOVE THE SURFACE....
Folks, these are work songs, to swing a hoe, or in Mississippi, probably a hammer...
I love hearing them, but imagine the folks living through it. There was, and is, 'white time,' and there's 'black time.' not the same now, but it still exists.
@jwalabama what about us white irish we also where slaves here and swung a hammer that is exatcly what it is a song for cadence to swing a rail hammer
@mrsplaya / Or a hoe, slingblade, chopping axe, pick, aggie, anything really. If they were told to sling dead cats at a cadence they would have or faced the consequences for their actions white, black, chinese or what not.
@mrsplaya These aren't slaves, these are prisoners at what is now called Parchman Penitentiary, all 15k acres of it. These are "prison songs" from the 20th Century. Irish weren't 'slaves' in 1947, but in Alabama prisons and Mississipi prisons, they were.
Do you have evidence of Irish 'slaves' in the United States? There's plenty of evidence of African/negro slaves here, and plenty of evidence of mistreatment of AA's after 'freedom,' as well. What r u saying?
Be my woman, gal I be your man, Be my woman, gal I be your man, Be my woman, gal I be your man. Every day is Sunday, dollar in your hand. In your hand, Lordy, in your hand. Every day is Sunday, dollar in your hand. Stick to the promise, gal that you made me, Stick to the promise, gal that you made me, Stick to the promise, gal that you made me, Wasn't gonna marry till-a I go free, I go free, Lordy, I go free, Wasn't gonna marry till-a I go free,
Oh God, the misery of the black skin people. The US history teaches that 90% blacks were innocently railroad to prison for free labor. The bible says the god of this world is the devil. What does that say about the one race that controls the world power?
It's only been 10 seconds and I can't understand how I ever thought anything else was any good.
HlaaluGuard 1 day ago
There is just some much soul and pain in this music. Great recording.
spharper05 2 days ago
SUPERBE <3
natafrika66 4 days ago
@natafrika66 merci bien!
monQsurlaKomod 4 days ago
LOLOL
shnnnmrphy 6 days ago
Power of sounds
mrallcz 1 week ago
Thanks for posting this great audio. I am deeply affected by this music.
There is great power in it.
TheFlambrosia 1 week ago
Música em dores e sacrifício!
danielcuricica 2 weeks ago
INCREDIBLE!
staceymfilms 2 weeks ago
Awesome recording, thanx uploader for the rip & share!!
Bloody0Martyr 2 weeks ago
Love this music... they sang with all of their heart and soul:) This is what I call SOUL... you can hear how they feel the pain they had endured... hate that things had happened to them.. but in the midst of it all they still had song:)
CHILDOFGOD5377 3 weeks ago
ALL I CAN SAY IS WOW
YoungmanwithOldsoul 1 month ago
We always hear how modern American music was influenced by the old black spirituals, but I think an equal influence was the work songs, because they talked about love, unrequited love, and so on.
Missbeansontoast 1 month ago
WOW! Remarkable song!!!
TheFirestorm304 1 month ago
the emotion and soul makes me want to slap our generation and say "walk straight, shoulders back, head up high and be the man and woman that our forefathers worked thier bones for."
tanachas7 1 month ago 2
Wow, what power and emotion rolled up into one song.
zoddodd 1 month ago
this is the greatest shit i have ever heard in my entire life.
seerskater 1 month ago 13
@seerskater that's fine by me! ;)
monQsurlaKomod 1 month ago 2
@seerskater You're dog shit!!!!!
LouisLeeKH 1 month ago
Son House is better.
goodvibesallround 1 month ago
ripsnortinroy 1 month ago 5
Man, just the feelin' of the men shoutin'. Can't help but feel the conviction in their voices. No pun intended...
Ghost2012ad 2 months ago
prison system aint like it used to be cant get good songs like this out the new system!!sad
littlebigears007 2 months ago
ya moyen de trouver un cd avec toute les chansons???
lovecacao 3 months ago
@lovecacao oui, ya moyen! moi, je l´ai en vinyl mais ca existe en CD
prison songs / alan lomax collection : en tapant cela dans google, ca devrait le faire..
monQsurlaKomod 3 months ago
@lovecacao English motherfucker.....do you speak it! Lol
goodvibesallround 1 month ago
Nina Simone does a fine cover of this.
blackcatsmith 3 months ago
This is the blues prison style, just love it!
campingkillen 3 months ago in playlist Creative Production
They should have gotten paid for this song.
maryandmoody 3 months ago
jay z and kanye need to do something to this
SackMaster72 3 months ago
when kanye west finds this..he will make millions off of sampling this
O6M6F6 3 months ago
Singing was the only way slaves/ prisoners could express their angst over their condition. You can feel the power of their souls in their voice. Break their bodies, break their families but you cannot break their souls.
bruin03 4 months ago
Love it.
heavyhand357 4 months ago
Holy shit!~
nesnejls 4 months ago
CORRECTION ON TITLE got to check this out -- Donald Lee Slave Blues
donaldleejr 5 months ago
got to check this out -- Donald Lee Salve Blues
donaldleejr 5 months ago
CAN SOMEBODY MAKE A BEAT OUT OF THIS
alleycatttl 5 months ago
so much ignorance in these comments -__-
aurielle04 5 months ago 2
@aurielle04 welcome to youtube....where ppl can hide behind computers and say what is really on their mind :( so sad
miamivicepastels83 5 months ago
This is absolutely astonishing---thank you so much for posting.
rubyflipper 5 months ago
I hate Parchman.
Bushido91328 6 months ago
I make my negroes sing this during planting season..hehe
PhatFarm60 6 months ago
Boy, get your black ass back in that cotton field!
PhatFarm60 6 months ago
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Makes the hair on the back of you neck stand up
moneyright22 6 months ago
Was Nina Simone's "Be My Husband" ~heavily~ inspired by this?
davesababe 6 months ago
I wish I knew the notes to this song!
dudewhatthehellman 7 months ago
black power
bossnigga123 7 months ago
@bossnigga123 oh typical nigger
Vaggeo92 5 months ago
So sad to hear. So much injustice...but so much overcoming.
vickielea12 7 months ago in playlist CooL Songs
" Slaves...Get shit done! "
TheBrradsullivan 7 months ago
puissant !!: quelles vibrations........
valcats 7 months ago
Génial vraiment.... Je suis vraiment heureuse de trouver cela sur youtube... toujours des frissons qui me parcourent quand j'écoute ça...
Delices 8 months ago
@Delices merci pour ton commentaire (en français, ça manque sur YouTube...) et ravi de l'émotion que cela t'a procuré!!
;)
bye
monQsurlaKomod 8 months ago
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swampcandy 10 months ago
thank you so much for putting this up. the video i put up in response is my version of another version of Rosie i found on some old field recording somewhere. it was hard to understand the words so i had to fill in the blanks. in a way i think that is what keeps music evolving. more or less i just wanted to thank you and the person that did the other video response. This is great stuff that needs to be kept alive!
swampcandy 10 months ago
This song carries and emotional wall that hits you in the face. I love old, primitive gospel and spirituals. I love history. This music has it all, plus the hardship and pain showing in every note. I don't think it matters who sang this. Just listen. I can hear slaves singing this type of song when working the fields way before the Civil War. What a download! Thank you so much for posting this.
MyMoppet52 1 year ago 16
@MyMoppet52 I can hear slaves singing this song while working on the railroads --- I can hear the hammering . . . touching, indeed.
ama00010 3 weeks ago 3
@ama00010 yes. I didn't get that in my comment. I might not have even thought it. Sometimes my brain is disengaged when I hear great music...my kids say it is disengaged much of the time. I listen to this a lot. You CAN hear the hammering...you can hear so much in this song! Thanks for adding something very important that I left out!
MyMoppet52 8 hours ago
@MyMoppet52
It's not primitive gospel or a spiritual. It's a work song about a woman named Rosie.
MrRajamuttu 1 week ago
@MrRajamuttu yes, and I imagine he was really missing her also. I went to churches where the same type 'call and refrain' songs were sung. The words were different. Usually about Jesus & heaven, but it was the same type of singing. They didn't have songbooks so someone would be the 'leader' & the congregation would answer. These influences got into early blues. Church music became secularized. Anyway,it's fantastic music. It's primitive &has very deep emotions.Thanks for commenting
MyMoppet52 1 week ago
@MyMoppet52 I would love to go to a Church were they did songs like this woohoo!! thanks for explaning 'call and refrain'
olbaidojor 19 hours ago
@olbaidojor Thanks for your comment, but my explanation of 'call & refrain' is just that. Mine. I'm not an expert so I'd check w/some ref books. We were invited anytime to visit this church since my dad was a good friend to many of the ppl.It was in 60's & we'd surprise ppl when we went but were totally accepted.We were up North & not in the Civil Rights 'hot spots'. Just farm country.It was great! The mountain churches in W.Va. do a call & refrain also.It's different, but similar.:)
MyMoppet52 8 hours ago
@olbaidojor Wanted to add I got to lots of different types of churches growing up. Daddy was small country preacher & was unique.He saw people for people. As far back as early 50's (when I was toddler) we always had company frm other countries during his school breaks.I grew up with lots of exposure to lots of different cultures. Ppl that many wouldn't even acknowledge at that time & I didn't even know that! The little church was my favorite & I wished I could have gone every Sunday!
MyMoppet52 8 hours ago
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HOMEBOY735 1 year ago
Merci pour cette musique et pour les autres, si difficile à trouver c'est vrais... tu as un pseudo vachement original lol ^^.
SurTensionMusic 1 year ago
@SurTensionMusic hey!!, enfin un (ou une?) français(e)!...mais, je suis surtout ravi qu'une personne si jeune s'intéresse à ce genre de document...alors merci bien!
(mon surnom vient d'une expression régulière de Maître Dieudonné).bye
monQsurlaKomod 1 year ago 6
this audio file recorded in 1947 by John Lomax at Parchman state prison.
i found this information when i made a research about work songs for a university assignment.
if anyone want more informations about work songs and blues this is a realy good book. Paul Oliver broadcasting the blues
kostasand1 1 year ago 11
@kostasand1 ahahah!!!....ALAN Lomax (not John)!!!
monQsurlaKomod 1 year ago
@monQsurlaKomod
Alan Lomax was accompanying his father John Lomax in the earlier recordings.
bennehbennehbenneh 10 months ago
@kostasand1 i cant understand what they are saying do you know where I can get the lyrics
JTaper 1 year ago
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@JTaper Part I: Be my woman, gal, I be your man, Be my woman, gal, I be your man, Be my woman, gal, I be your man. Every day is Sunday´s dollar in your hand. In your hand, Lordy, in your hand. Every day is Sunday´s dollar in your hand. Stick to the promise, gal, that you made me.(3x) Wasn´t gonna marry me till-a I go free, I go free, Lordy, I go free, Wasn´t gonna marry me till-a I go free. Chorus: Wo -- Rosie, o Lord, gal, Wo -- Rosie, o Lord, gal.
sdeal709 1 year ago
What's the repetitive tap? I heard it on the Alabama one
rock4life119 1 year ago
@rock4life119 They're working, something like hammering, hoeing, or such. These songs were often sung to keep them all of the prisoners in rhythm as they worked.
Maestro2500 1 year ago
@Maestro2500 Wow, that's pretty cool to learn. What was it recorded with? And was it recorded in an actual prison?
rock4life119 1 year ago
@rock4life119 It was recorded in Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1947. As to how it was recorded, I have no idea. Ask the person that made the video, he might know.
Maestro2500 1 year ago
@rock4life119 The lead singer was a convict called "C.B.". He and ten other convicts were working with axes while this was recorded. The song A. Lomax recorded in 1947 at Parchman were recorded with one of the first portable tape machines that came on the market. You´ll find this song on a CD called "Prison Song, Historical Recordings from Parchman Farm 1947-1948, Volume One: Murderous Home" at the Alan Lomax Collection from Rounder Records.
Meufi1980 1 year ago
@Meufi1980 That's interesting. Where could I find out more about this CB fellow?
rock4life119 1 year ago
@rock4life119 I´m sorry I don´t know. The information I gave to you is from the booklet of my CD and it´s the only one I have. But as they say in that booklet the names of the prisoners on that record were only "their prison aliases, the nicknames with which they were christened as soon as they entered the pen": Just as Jimpson, Tangle Eye, Fuzzie Red, "22"...
Meufi1980 1 year ago
@Meufi1980 Ah, thanks!
rock4life119 1 year ago
Pretty awesome. THanks for sharing.
tidzja 1 year ago
Thats another crackin post monQ. Good man.
DamianNixon 1 year ago
...Kinda hurts my ears to listen to it
IfunyunsI 1 year ago
That made me feel like I was in church... crazy! Thanks for posting!
ThatsABiggon 1 year ago
@ThatsABiggon CHUCH
danetu 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this song, it is hard to learn about black history and this is one way to educate ourselves. So much have been lost, because it was not documented. Blacks need to know their history.
Lesliegilda 1 year ago
This is STR8 FUNK right right here ... the emotion on this song is unreal. Thank you so much for sharing!
glsmith04 1 year ago
I wish I knew their names.
I wish they new that they created Rock music
I wish that they all got set free
I wish Alan & John Lomax didnt get all the credit for this
I wish they weren't so nameless
Applebaum 1 year ago 4
@Applebaum Your impassioned comment's nice and all but Alan Lomax deserves credit because his "field" recordings chronicled these important sounds
busessuck1 1 year ago
@busessuck1 your patronising comment's nice and all
but I didnt say that Alan Lomax didnt deserve any credit
White privilege allowed him to have access to recording facilities and aparatus that those black people would not have been able 2hav. the legacy of Slavery and the degredation of Black people compounding their pain & depression into the most sweetest sounding pain that we are now all privileged to hear.
White privilege allows Mr Lomax to have credit
Racism allows them to remain nameless
Applebaum 1 year ago 2
@Applebaum Wow, I can honestly say this is the most intellegent comment I've ever read on youtube. Your statement I think literally defines the plight of all the forgotten Black musicians of this era. I couldn't have put it any better even if I tried.
camking88 1 year ago
@Applebaum
hear hear........and Mr.Lomax doesnt have it to look after any more. We do.
DamianNixon 1 year ago
@Applebaum
I love how you described this sound *Compounding pain and depression into the most sweetest sounding pain.* I've always enjoyed listen to these kinds of songs during ruff times...they inspire me.
Sahbisun 1 year ago
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kidsareoverrated 1 year ago
Just erie to listen to. Driving through the Mississippi delta up to Chicago its amazong to think that these songs dug the levees and towed the cargo up the river from the slave days to the 1950's and maybe the 1980's. Great documentary called The land Where Blues began that out there
amensupremera 1 year ago
sitter manne inne i vår tid er det bare gørra...
Albertino42 1 year ago
Since they didn't have any female attention they sang that song I guess..hmmm it's sad,isn't it? :'-(
mihiva 1 year ago
Absolutely stunning. THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS HERE!!!!!
stkates12 1 year ago
The most beautiful voice I have ever heard.
drenachrome 1 year ago
Really amazing.
MissusHow 1 year ago
Crikey!
wiltbert 1 year ago
Unbelievably compelling voice!
ijoan 2 years ago
Early to Mid 20th Century prison songs are really powerful. The music takes you to a solemn place; gives me goosebumps.
pong06 2 years ago
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these is some hard working nigger guys
The south will rise AGAIN
mikeyisgay9 2 years ago
@mikeyisgay9 mm mm mmm. nd still that ignorance rides on your back, I hope one day you can shake that free.
His voice shook my soul back in time, he bout hipnotized me.
kstarBAM 2 years ago
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Nigga please
mikeyisgay9 2 years ago
oooo I JUST LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jayonna65 2 years ago
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monQsurlacommode c excellent cette musique !!!
d'ou est c ke ta sorti sa???
c vraiment puissant ce truk
merci encore
(t fan de dieudo ???)
ibRakem1 2 years ago
everyone is on here arguing over the origin of music..who cares does that change music at all, i don't get how you can hear real music here from the spirit of humanity and still go back and forth as if there is a true difference between black and white or asian and european and any other name we use to seperate ourselves. look at the picture from a whole one earth one galaxy one moon one sun and one love
stitchizstl 2 years ago
dont say negro
macdrekillin 2 years ago
Someone needs to record that today. Hell of a voice.
maryandmoody 2 years ago 4
I love it how people argue about stupid shit. If you like the sound of it, does it really matter...
cvantrease 2 years ago
i totally agree with you..fanx for your wisdom..peace
monQsurlaKomod 2 years ago
cant sing as well as hannah montana.
joking
MrJMANDY 2 years ago
amazing! you know I am not conected to usa history but it's important for me like a person. not like a citizen.
meijlut 2 years ago
this guy can seriously sing!!
roudy1689 2 years ago
Deep. Very.
entity3sf 2 years ago
fabulous fantastic blues how good is the lead singer on this knocks silly little boy bands and silly little girl bands into a cocked hat
diannemcarthur 2 years ago 4
Meufi1980 2 years ago 61
@Meufi1980 Thank you for taking the time to do this. I appreciate it a lot!
MyMoppet52 8 hours ago
Part II:
When she walks, she reels and rocks behind,
When she walks, she reels and rocks behind,
Ain´t that enough to worry convict´s mind.
Ain´t that enough to worry convict´s mind.(Chorus)
Be my woman, gal, I be your man, (3x)
Every day Sunday´s dolar in your hand. (Chorus)
Meufi1980 2 years ago 62
@Meufi1980 Thanks so much for the lyrics!
melpeanut1 1 year ago
@melpeanut1 You´re welcome!
Meufi1980 1 year ago
Has anyone got a link to lyrics for this one...? Awesome...
deathpigeon69 2 years ago
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Meufi1980 2 years ago
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Meufi1980 2 years ago
Look above
Meufi1980 2 years ago
Diomedes: Do you actually know anything about eastern european music? Did you search anything up before hating something like that?
Shiro1981 2 years ago
this is awesome
lladsbid 2 years ago
Anyone know where I can find lyrics to this?
Asarelah 2 years ago
alan lomax collection or his book has lots of lyrics.book is the land where the blues began.this is also on cd now.might be rare on record but not on cd.lots of these work songs they will sing about Rosie.she is a hooker who they save up there change for .its true good ole rosie :)
necklord007 2 years ago
Cool. Thanks for the info.
Asarelah 2 years ago
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Meufi1980 2 years ago
Where'd you find the record.
TheTruth006 2 years ago
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shankaboom 2 years ago
Nina Simone has a wonderful version of this song, and called it Be my husband.
This is beatiful.
Cculta 2 years ago
Wow, this is amazing.
53160 2 years ago 2
some good music, ray charles-like
BigWillyTilly 2 years ago
Thank you for posting this rare recording. I so long to hear more songs, lost now, some passed down orally I suspect....the rowers songs I would like to hear.
Artmaker52 2 years ago
The Lomax's work is incredibly valuable, comparable to Bela Bartok's studying of folk music in Eastern Europe. These recordings are invaluable to American folk history. Anyone who says America has no culture of folk history is mistake. Just take a listen....
DrRJohnson 2 years ago 3
given that hardly anyone actually likes eastern european folk, and the fact that it gave rise to no important modern musical forms, I would say the african american folk tradition is far beyond, not comparable to, the european
Diomedes22 2 years ago
why the incredibly racist/ethnocentric comment (absolutely uncalled for)???...and i'm pretty sure the meaning and value of "folk music" is not isolated to any particular group...and fyi folk music certainly existed prior to african american slave/prison culture (an incredibly important time period i agree)...but the great thing about music is that is should transcend bigotry and hatred, or in theory at least...
DrRJohnson 2 years ago 2
if I were to say that Russian lit of the era Gogol to Tolstoy was comparable to the african american lit of the harlem Renaissance that would be racist and absurd as those russians were far beyond anything going on in african american lit. Likewise, the african amercian musical traditions go way beyond anything else in folk (or anything other than classical, which is equal to jazz which evolved from african american folk), so your comment is a sort of backhand racist compliment.
Diomedes22 2 years ago
Diomedes, you obviously don't know shit about the history of music. Just to name one small thing, Jazz , blues, rock and such wouldn't exist without europe, because diatonal music was created in europe. Oh yes, Chords for instance. Nobody with a sound mind takes away cred from the african influences of modern music. It is of course a huge part of it. But so is european. So check out the facts before you start talking shit. But you're obviously very bitter about something.
sideburner 2 years ago
you're talking about the elements or building blocks of modern music. they were put together by african americans with no significant influence from whites. saying our music was 'influenced 'by us is absurd and shows your perspective quite clearly
Diomedes22 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
African-Americans have a lot of white blood and a lot of white culture. Anyone claiming otherwise has an agenda and doesn't give a shit about the facts.
mrgabest 2 years ago
The correct term is "diatonic". But chords were not "invented" in Europe. The xylophone of Africa, the pan pipes of the Olmecs, the gamelan of Indonesia, the koto of Japan, were all invented b4 these places had European influence.Surely u cannot assume that some1 who owned a string instrument or xylophone-like instrument wud only pluck 1 string or strike 1 bar at a time until they met a European? Yes, Jazz uses Euro modes and scales, but the chord structure is clearly African at times.
Prophet2Deep 2 years ago
And Europeans take their classic structure from the middle east. Doest that make classical Middle eastern? NO
Jazz, blues, rock, rap , hip hop, and even the early stages of Electronic music were created by African Americans.
Hell if we go your rout, everything started in Africa, so we could say Africans invented everything. LOL
Stop trying to steal other peoples cultural inventions.
zerohero35 2 years ago 5
This is a prison/work song from the old days when it was a field holla, going back at least as far as the 1870s, and probably a lot older than that.
I think this was recorded by John and Alan Lomax.
frankzeppelin 3 years ago
i am who iam the prodigy of the son of sam.. i musn't give a ,damn in like a lion , out like a lamb...... hte weAK LINK IN THE CHAIN THAT SENT 500 FREE OVER THE PLANK INTO THE WATER WHERE I HOLD MY HEAD UP ABOVE THE SURFACE....
WeeZyWayne 3 years ago
i kno this is something that needs too be shown cuse MOST BALCK PPL HAVE FORGOT THAT THIS HOW WE HAD TOO GET BY
sexycni12 3 years ago 3
true, i know when im going to through a hard time....music calms me down
armand111 3 years ago 2
same here man thats what helps me get through times when im mad
hamsterman23 2 years ago 2
nice ^_^
armand111 2 years ago
Folks, these are work songs, to swing a hoe, or in Mississippi, probably a hammer...
I love hearing them, but imagine the folks living through it. There was, and is, 'white time,' and there's 'black time.' not the same now, but it still exists.
jwalabama 3 years ago 6
I know that..that's why I love those "document" so much....
PEACE
monQsurlaKomod 3 years ago
@jwalabama what about us white irish we also where slaves here and swung a hammer that is exatcly what it is a song for cadence to swing a rail hammer
mrsplaya 1 year ago
@mrsplaya / Or a hoe, slingblade, chopping axe, pick, aggie, anything really. If they were told to sling dead cats at a cadence they would have or faced the consequences for their actions white, black, chinese or what not.
TheArchermorgan 1 year ago
@mrsplaya These aren't slaves, these are prisoners at what is now called Parchman Penitentiary, all 15k acres of it. These are "prison songs" from the 20th Century. Irish weren't 'slaves' in 1947, but in Alabama prisons and Mississipi prisons, they were.
Do you have evidence of Irish 'slaves' in the United States? There's plenty of evidence of African/negro slaves here, and plenty of evidence of mistreatment of AA's after 'freedom,' as well. What r u saying?
jwalabama 1 year ago 2
Does anyone know the lyrics by any chance? Great video btw.
dalmatinac16 3 years ago
caterpillarnut 3 years ago 5
Whoa -Rosie, o Lord, gal
Whoa -Rosie, o Lord gal
When she walks, she reels and rocks behind,
When she walks, she reels and rocks behind
Ain't that enough to worry a convict's mind.
Ain't that enough to worry a convict's mind.
Whoa -Rosie, o Lord gal
Whoa -Rosie, o Lord gal
caterpillarnut 3 years ago 4
Be my woman, gal I be your man,
Be my woman, gal I be your man,
Be my woman, gal I be your man.
Every day is Sunday, dollar in your hand
Whoa -Rosie, o Lord gal
Whoa -Rosie, o Lord gal
caterpillarnut 3 years ago 3
We are studying this in my world music class, in our book the line is "every sunday's dollar in your hand"
*shrugs*
jlovless 3 years ago
that was amazing. best thing i've seen on you tube in awhile. thanks very much for putting it on.
eoghan2784 3 years ago
very touched by your comment
PEACE 2 U
monQsurlaKomod 3 years ago
monQsurlacommode c excellent cette musique !!!
d'ou est c ke ta sorti sa???
c vraiment puissant ce truk
merci encore
(t fan de dieudo ???)
ibRakem1 2 years ago
ca vient d,un vieux vinyl trouve sur un marche d,occasion....un vinyl italien en plus..
fan de Dieudo, on peut le dire
tchusss
monQsurlaKomod 2 years ago
Oh God, the misery of the black skin people. The US history teaches that 90% blacks were innocently railroad to prison for free labor. The bible says the god of this world is the devil. What does that say about the one race that controls the world power?
rhinochino 1 year ago
its beautifull
iliokamenos87 3 years ago 2