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  • 3r b son trolos todos

  • The only crime many of those committed was being being born black.

  • Like blacks are the only ones who go to prison....

  • where the hell you think the blues come from? It ain't no white thing. Where the hell you think soul music come from? where the hell you think reggae and ska come from? This music is original in the soul of man. The originator is the black man. It's from the black people of this world that we can appreciate all these types of music. Next time your walking down the road, shake hands with someone that is different than you and maybe then, we can all get along. Peace to all.

  • @TheWezz69

    Amen. All music today is rooted in slave songs. And BTW I'm a proud white man.

  • @TheOtherView Amen to you too brother. I am a Proud white man who willingly and lovingly has black men, women, and other creeds as freinds and co-workers. I don't judge on colour and why should anyone else. You judge the person on their actions and what they do. Not on their beliefs, creed or colour. To do that is totally and unjustly being racist.

  • @TheOtherView well I'm not sure all music today's rooted in slave songs, but certainly a lot of it is, and slavery definitely has had a huge impact on all of our cultures. It's sad, but often the most awful, terrible things can lead to good things as well as bad. The human spirit's like a phoenix, it just keeps on rising from the ashes, no matter how many times you try to burn it out.

  • @TheWezz69 blues aint no white thang and it aint no black thang...its a human thang

  • Poor men imm white but im not racist, fucking texas KKK clan and this shit its a fag clan

  • im not going to lie... this song is fucking sick! lol

  • OBAMA 2012

  • You all...........do.....realize..­...that Obama has shitted up more than I care to share in a political spectrum, right? Doesn't matter if he's part black or not, he's a charismatic politician, but a shitty leader. He'd make a better HR manager than a CEO. Also, what most people don't realize is that racism will never die as long as people(of ANY color, race, or creed, INCLUDING blacks) throw around the whole Someone is better than Someone else because they are, or aren't, Something. Foolish....

  • @cmaxO123 answer this for me. HOW IN THE HELL DO YOU TURN SHIT INTO CHICKEN SALAD. SHIT THAT WAS COOKED FOR EIGHT YEARS STRAIGHT. It's like white people are happy he's fucking up so they can put the blame on him for something that was fucked up by another administration.

  • black people look back at this and cry

    white people look back at this and are like WTF WHY DID WE FREE THEM??? they did so much good work

  • Let's all agree that when you go to prison theree is '' NO DISCRIMINATION " when It comes to " COLOR '' !!!!! Wheter you be WHITE , BLACK , BROWN , PURPLE , GREEN , or YELLOW ..... LET IT BE KNOWN THAT PRISONS DON'T DISCRIMINATE !!!!!! BUT PRISONS MOSTLY LOCK UP THE BLACKS CAUSE THEY WANT TO KEEP THEM DOWN LIKE IN THE SLAVERY DAYS !!!!! WELL GUESS WHAT ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS ONE WORD !!!!!! OBAMA BABY HAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!!!!!!!! HE'S OUR PROOF THAT YOU DID'NT BREAK US WHITE TRASH !!!!

  • @aprildaonlyqueen123

    Let's all agree that nigger neighborhoods are the worst, more niggers love to kill and shoot other niggers, the country is in terrible shape with a nigger at the helm, and niggers were better off when whitey had control over them.

  • @backwardk I refuse to further associate with ya iggnorrant ass .... You're obviously stupid and brainwashed ..... like i said before a ''black man '' rules our country now ... so take a seat on the back burner cracker !!!!! dont message me no more im done talking to ya ass thank you very much !!!!!

  • @aprildaonlyqueen123

    Thank you for the typical Negro reply.

  • @aprildaonlyqueen123

    Just to make it clear he does not rule our country,lol. He is our elected President, huge difference considering we are not a communist nation...not yet.

    He also has no more power to do anything than any other elected President. That job is a false "photo" to give us an appearance of power, control and unity, all of which we don't have. We never will as long as people vote for or against a candidate according to race and not policy.

  • @aprildaonlyqueen123 i can understand your anger about stupid white racists. but don´t let them provoke you, we´re living in times when a man can reach the highest political ranks, regardless of his origin / color of skin (as it´s written in the US constitution). the USA came a long way, but now we have such times. and i´m glad about that.

    if ppl try to provoke you or hurt you, stay cool & smile at them. this proves that you´re stronger & wiser than them.

  • @harpiyon THANK YOU ..... for not being iggnorant in your comment to me at least SOMEONE has some common sense !!!!! And OBAMA will make it another term 2012 baby !!!!!

  • @aprildaonlyqueen123 you´re welcome. i think the times of racism, intolerance & prejudice should be long gone. but i guess many ppl are still having old-fashioned, archaic ways of thinking. judging others is so easy, that´s why many ppl are doing it. accepting others as they are is much harder. it takes intelligence, tolerance & courage to do so. not many ppl are like that.

    and yes, i like Obama, too, i wish him good luck for the next elections. best US president since a long time.

  • @aprildaonlyqueen123 Whats good about Obama winning in 2012? He can only do it once! HAHAHAHA!

  • @timothystrain Just like all the other US presidents before OBAMA they all did it once or twice as well dumbass hahahahahahahahahahahah 

  • @backwardk No i get off to shooting peckerwoods more

  • @backwardk This country was int eh toilet when that peckerwood BUSH was in office.Stock market crashed and he couldnt wait to get outta office lmfao now its going to take a black man to clean up the white mans mess

  • CAREFUL WITH THIS PAGE 'COS IT'S FULL OF MENTALLY ILL VIOLENCE-OBSESSED PEA-BRAINS. (TOO MANY TIMES READ "THE CATCHER IN THE RYE", I GUESS). IT'S A GREAT WORK FROM THE HEART GO AND VISIT THE PRISONERS. VERY MUCH LIKE PETE SEEGER, GREAT FIGHTER FOR FREEDOM.GO TO THE DEMO ON JULY 4TH 2011, (NO, PLEASE, NOT YOU).

  • country black folks are cool as hell its just the city ones i dont like cause they act disrespectful

  • @dirtywhitetrash333tx YOU JUST SAYING THAT CAUSE "YOU" FEEL THAT THE COUNTRY BLACKS CAN BE TAMED WHEREAS WE ALL KNOW THAT IF U COME CROSS A CITY BLACK FROM THE NORTH HE WILL TEAR YOUR ASS UP !!!! YOU GOTTA BE WHITE HENCE YOUR SCREEN NAME !!!!! SMDH

  • @aprildaonlyqueen123 No, city blacks act like fucking savages, that's why. Look how high their crime rate is even amongst each other.

  • @wasp9 Funny how you know what you are and project that thought on others.

  • @CalypieAndroid No, I'm respectful in general. I don't attack people without being provoked, I'm courteous, I have a job.

  • @dirtywhitetrash333tx all white people are bad..country,city...it dosent matter

  • nice :)

  • Leave Europe come to USA, and we'll show you how to run for your life.....HOW'S THAT WORKING FOR YA?????

  • USA knows how keep niggers! In Europe, we just leave them out of work

  • @Kamamoska And you too will feel the wrath of God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. Because we are the hebrew Israelites nd everything that has happened to us has been part of prophecy. You gone see, why your empires are going to fal and why the lies of your people are going to fall, You messed with Ishmael(Arabs), and Ishmael is a wild man so watch what will happen, to europe, america and all this stuff built upon blood of the Negros(Israeites). People think they can commit a crime and go unpunished.

  • Back then, there was consequences that followed bad/stupid decisions, If only we had kept these consequences as was, I can assure EVERYONE the world would be a better place…

  • ...and just give up on pit-bulls... because the college educated Law Enforcement will assume and jump to conclusions that you guys are "committing unspeakable acts of animal cruelty" ...so ...and again... don't trust the vets(dog doctors) ...and dogs need lots of room to run around... and most important... German Shepherds are working dogs... simple...

  • ...also... maybe we can adopt a German Sheppard out of the pound(dog prison) because those dogs are the best... and Law Enforcement just uses them up... and then... then they just order them selves a new dog... HA?! ...hmmm... shame! ...and lets NOT cut anything off from the dogs... and no fucking koo-koo shots or trips to the vet or dog-pills... and just take the dogs to the park at night... and every day... for two(2) hours... hmmm... and those dogs will teach you what I have learned... hmmm.

  • ...and lets forget about integration... because crackers love to touch... and to sniff... and to smell... and to hang out... and to talk to "colored people" ...or to Eastern European immigrants... because we are so poor and angry... and the momas boy crackers want to absorb our vibe... and to touch what we touch... HA?! ...so they can go back to their fat Yankee mothers... and brag on how they were brave... and how they conquered their fear... and how they understand... and how sorry they are!

  • ...because the Japanese have hands on experience... when it comes to the properties of metal and iron... and even simple wiring... hmmm... and Japan is #1 if we were to compare the quality of their steel and Iron... and metal... yet for you guys... you guys need to find old technology... because your grate-grandfathers dreamed of working on them... and to be allowed to own machines... and to be an old fashioned mechanic... and that is what a blacksmith was... the first mechanic was a blacksmith

  • ...just be careful with old computers and old electronic equipment... because that stuff has a lot of new age material... hmmm... yet old steal and old iron and old metal is good for you... plus... I have no idea as to why a machine that is rusty is automatically bad... and no good... hmmm... koo-koo... anyway... I am fanatical when it comes to wire brushes... to scrape of the rust that builds up... and maybe even do what I did... and find your self an old Isuzu engine to bring back to life...

  • ...and no gloves... and maybe even walk barefoot on some old train tracks... HA?! ...the same way that you forefathers did... because shoes were a luxury... hmmm..and also... you guys and your kids need to play with those old and rusty Rail Road spikes... and from now on... old iron... and old technology is your birthright... so this way... you and your kids can pick up were WE left off... and be normal... and learn to weld metal and finally be a BLACKSMITH... where colords were bared from doing

  • ...hmmm... lets keep in mind that this video could be FAKE... and just propaganda... of how the lazy Negros were being saved by the good-old-boy-cracker-motherfuc­kers... HA?! ...and those lazy Negros should be tanking them and be more understanding and thankful... and bla bla bla... hmmm... now... Negros need to be handeling Iron... and steal... and metal... and even if it's rusty... or especially if metal/iron is rusty... then just get a metal-wire brush... and scrape of the rust off... simple!

  • were they singing "yellow rain"

    ummmm....

    golden showers ftw?

    lol jk, i love the sound of this

  • i watched the video and they made a reference to Jody got your girl and gone. Jody got your sister too. That saying still around in the Navy.  Thats what we say when we get underway...Dont worry bro, Jody gonna take care of your girl.

  • Why the hell arent prisons like this now? Well...liberals for 1.haha

  • @marccus1989, For real, wish my job/unit was that easy, lol

  • aa k mugrerooo

  • imagine giving a bunch of inmates axes now... :/

  • @jimmie159 They'd rightfully fuck up those pig guards.

  • @jimmie159 those men were probably innocent

  • @jimmie159 shut up

    

  • fucking nazis, but great music

  • whats the song there singin?

  • @zammerock121 The name of the song is "Hammer Ring" and you can find it on I-Tunes under "Wake Up Dead Man-Black Convict Worksongs from Texas Prisons"

  • Wow lookin at this video gives me a glimpse at how the beautiful melanated gods built these ancient cities and how we would just work an sing in unison go into a trance and work for hours and it feels like minutes, its amazing amazing

  • Damn. Thats our music topic 

  • The brasilian and USA story is a shit.

    The captans killers black mans aand woman, its was a bad atitude.

    Fuck te capatains.

    I am a native brasilian. I respect the brothers and sisters.

    Fuck the racism...

  • I love how they're using the rhythm of their axes cutting the trees as their song's rhythm.

  • pretty sick song lol

  • thank you very much for put here this document. I don¨t speak your lenguaje very well, and so I can¨t express everything I want to say you. Thank you.

  • Reminds of Opening Scene of "O Brother Where Art Thou?"

  • @Afghanen boooooo

  • when i was there it went, 'and we're rockin on it, 1 an 2 an 3 & 4. used to drive a cadillac but now you gota backhack, 1 2 3 4. used to shop at heb, now you eat at tdc 1 2 3 4. had your chance to live right, now you goin head high 1 2 3 4.

    theres dozens of em.

  • is that Mance Lipscombe i'm hearing?!?

  • hi!... tnhx for this

  • I was born and raised in Huntsville. I don't remember it quite like that. Then again, that's way after my time.

  • I should have said the entire film is listed at

    YouTube as Racehoss:The Life of Albert Race

    Sample-Full Feature. Of course the book tells

    much more about life, and death, at Retrieve than

    the film has time to tell. Albert's story is a

    magnificent story of redemption. And some years

    ago he died.

  • Continuation of comment-The book is titled

    Racehoss:Big Emma's Boy by Albert Race Sample.

    I personally know that some of what he wrote about

    Retrieve is not accurate, but I think the great majority

    is accurate. It is one of the most renowned prison

    narratives in American history. His story was made

    into a feature film. You can watch the entire film at

    YouTube video Racehoss:The Life of Albert Race

    Sample. I highly recommend the book & the film.

  • @LoneTinaja thank you. thank you very much for this information.

  • Continuation of comment-By the time I first went to Retrieve in 1963 the number of inmate deaths in Texas prisons at the hands of guards had fallen greatly over the years. However if the field bosses decided an inmate in the field was being lazy there would be some tough physical punishment when the inmate was back in the main building that evening. When I was at Retrieve Albert Sample was an inmate there. He later wrote a famous book about his life & Retrieve. Comment continues-
  • Continuation of comment-From 1963 to the early '70s I spent a lot of time at Retrieve state prison farm in Brazoria County where my father provided an essential contractor service. I also worked there as a guard during 2 summer breaks from college. I knew prison officials who had been guards in the system in the '30s when Texas prisons were the harshest in the U.S. I also knew an old inmate who had been in a Texas prison those worst years. Comment continues- Comment continues-
  • We don't have chain gangs in Texas honey, never have. Check yourself.

  • @WildBluebonnet -My family moved to East Texas before the Civil War & I can assure you that any East Texan in the late 19th century & early 20th century saw plenty of chain gangs working on road construction & repair. Also, read the book Texas Gulag:The Chain Gang Years 1875-1925 by Gary Brown. It was in the 1930's, after the chain gang era, that Texas prisons became the harshest in America for a number of years. Afterwards there was substantial reform. Comment continues-
  • almost did'nt notice in the documentary

    at folksteams suddenly at 09:00 watch

  • lyricks`?

  • To Moritz

  • The music is beautiful.

  • If you break your axe handle at Eastham they give you one with a metal handle. Ouch! And stay upwind of the burning brush piles that have poison oak on them. And never, ever allow yourself to move into the area of the Hoe next to you. Major don't like that. I never heard anybody singing but I was in the White Line.

    Bad memories---all of them.

  • Beautifull music

  • Though they were prisoners....They used the same work method and rythm that slaves, old gospel preachers...and old gospel singers used........em gwon use that old call and responces....I still use it..... can't help it.....the timing seems so natural.... born with it, I see it and hear it in nature.lol...Cooke

  • notice how black people never lose their souls even in the harshest of times? if any other people were put in black peoples shoes, i don't think they would prosper as well.

  • @tacomuybueno The Jews ain't done too bad.

  • @oysterjoe true that.

  • This is the Walls Unit, Texas' oldest prison. This is THE Texas State Pen.

  • @brianreading Walls Unit is easy time, comparatively. Never saw any land clearing crews worked out Huntsville. HuntsVILE, I calls it.

  • AFRO-AMERICAN lol

  • they sung to help them work some even communicated to other slaves threw music. I call this the original jazz

  • african pirates enslaved irish folk way back in the day..

  • @mangozumo true

  • the comments on here should not be as petty as they are...if anything they should be in appreciation of this cool video

  • i never seen a white slave

  • coz dey anit any.

  • there were irish slaves due to the english attack on the irish people and often would call the irish the "white" version of african americans.

  • @sweetsummertea where are the pictures

  • @ spud921,

    So do you really think that there was no such thing as white slaves throughout world history?

  • i never seen a black slave because i wasnt born back then

  • yea me neither but people are confused these arent slaves these are prisoners

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  • shut up mafucker. u tink dis sh*t funny?

  • @spud921 you should get an education and read the book "Slavery by another name". It shows how blatantly racist laws especially in the south were used to imprison blacks for minor infractions and it was used as a way to continue the practise of using black males as cheap labor

  • I try to engage in intelligent dialog without the mudslinging. Bottom line is that any time in history that a group is systemically oppressed and denied basics civic equality you're going to have problems. When the Romans civilized the anglo saxons it was the same except for the rRomans prided themselves on giving conquered peoples civic equality under Roman law. If blacks were allowed to just naturally progress rather than constantly held back they'd be further ahead. cheers,

  • i would think of it more of a way of pitting us against each other. divide and conquer has been in full effect going far far back into American history.

  • du bastarrd du bist so ein dummer idi HAHAHAH

  • @MHVPS444 what the fuck learn to spell .

  • you are so stupid in so many ways.

  • @thetalkingbrain you are a whore in so many ways

  • "dude check out these dumbass comments i left on the tube bro. these people think they know shit, i put them in their place. hell yeah, life is good"

  • they damn sure do have hoe squads. TDCJ has the best field force in the nation. I'm trying to be a field boss at OL Luther Unit. If I succeed, I'll be the only lady field boss at the unit

  • where can i get more of this...i loveeeeeee it

  • most of the slaves were wrongfully imprisoned....

  • when your a slave you really dont have a choice

  • absolutely right....an imprisoned for looking at a white woman or saying something to someone white...i hate bigotry.

  • amazing video

    such haunting music

  • though prison sucks but at least at that time inmates werent raping each other and forming gangs and killing one another.

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  • @marccus1989: If you read Alan Lomax's book the "Land Where The Blues Began" chapter 6 does discuss in detail what prison life in the Delta was like..and it might surprise you.

  • @marccus1989 What, you think this is a new concept, raping and gangs in prison, and guards participating as well? Believe me, it has always been that way.

  • @marccus1989 yeah they were.

  • @marccus1989 Thats because these men didn't belong there! Texas used to be one of the most unforgiving states against black people.

  • @ethix123 i rememer my history teacher said when she went to texas she saw prison workgrounds that had abut 300 prisoners and as far as she could see all of them were blacks

    this was in the late 90s

  • @marccus1989 are you sure about that?? I wouldnt count on that. Read about leadbelly

  • @marccus1989 nah its bullshit, at that time there were coming together and today they are only divided sometimes because there are various measures in place to keep particular people in their place so that the population is udner control and tabs and spying can be kept over people. very brutal system and the victims are again of african heritage.

  • @ashrafilm sad, but true

  • @marccus1989 how do you know? were you there?

  • @marccus1989 How do you know? We werent there. Well, I wasnt. People were just as violent a long time ago as they are today.

  • @marccus1989 How do you know? Some of the Scottsboro Boys wrote about their experiences in prison. Maybe you should read about it.

  • Stop your goddamn racist comments man. WTF is wrong with you man? Emancipation Proclamation?

  • is this from a documentry

  • When this squad is supposed to be four stepping, their line was sloppy. I was lead row for hoe squad 13 in Abilene and Boss Reed woulda cried if I didn't have all the row facing in the same direction. Aggies up...

  • ahhh no one believes me when i tell them texas still has hoe squads and some of them still sing when they work and yes they still ride out to the field the same as seen in this video. Hilltop (gatesville tx)

  • let cha hamma ring

  • let the hammer reign?

  • @PeazyG420 "let your hammer ring"

  • What are the lyrics?

  • sweet song, makes me want to go to prison

  • i've got 3 lp by lomax...

    it's so great human love for beauty that even in prison can happen this...

  • in the respect for the afro american Sentiment

  • this song even though is from prision, i must say, the lyric is beautiful, the afro american sentiment has the feeling and mutual spiritual intensity, sorrow , pain, and inside joy of dreams..i must admit..i wish i would know the name ot he song, in respect for the african american

  • well, what we got here? U got urself a Lucas Jackson. that must be the man with no eyes. the boss man at about the 40 sec mark on the horse with the shades.

  • How long have you not felt separated from people who are black...?

  • Thanx...I'm back.

  • Follow the link, totally worth it.

  • i live in huntsville!

  • don't pick up hitch hikers, like the sign says

  • that guy on the horse looks just like tha bastard guy with shades in cool hand luke!

  • Continuation of my comment- When several inmates were swinging axes to cut down a tree they had to keep a precise rhythm so that the axes didn't strike each other, thus the song providing that rhythm had to be more precise in rhythmic form than the songs for swinging hoes in the crop fields. I spent a lot of time at Retrieve through the '60s & into the early '70s. In the evenings some of the black inmates sang Gospel & Blues. Retrieve was a tough place to be an inmate in those days.
  • Beginning in 1963 I started spending a lot

    of time at Retrieve state prison farm in

    Brazoria County where my father provided

    an essential contractor service. The

    inmates called Retrieve "The Burnin' Hell".

    Most inmates were African-American &

    they led all the work songs in the crop

    fields & when clearing brush along Oyster

    Creek & when cutting down trees. See

    continuation of this comment.

  • wow. this is amazing how they're all in unison and using such a rhythmic tune.

  • thx for sharing...

  • does that tune they sing throughout exist to find, or is it just impro?

  • yea go to the site, its also on i tunes look up let your hammer ring. sadly its not to this rhythm

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  • nothing much has changed The hoe squad still goes out to work in the field in gatesville texas and "cadence is still called" keeping in tune with the pick axe. no need for john deer and caterpiller or electricity and gas. a pick axe and a good song........and the work begins

  • They shoulda locked Pete ass up and let the others out.

  • the best time !

  • Damn right this is old school though eastham is still a lot like it. except for the all black part thank God.

  • This was much harder than it looks,and they did not,wear thos ehats,nor did they dress that "snappy"