@BloodOfTheDarkPrince mmm, i don't know what to tell you brother.. Can't understand what the difference is... Everybody want to believe that we are all equal, when clearly Europeans people who have invested trillions of dollars over the better part of 2,000 years establishing "white supremacy". Your name is blood of the dark prince? Do you know who the dark prince is? Is he your father? Is that why you would have an issue with your sister and a mexican?
@slimemeister Your ignorance is incredible, it's almost hard to believe. You sound like your in kindergarden. "Stinky, ugly garbage?" That doesn't even sound like an insult...lol Go get a tan. And while you are there, try to think of something fresh and original.... You are so angry about not having style or culture... Let that bitterness go bro, it will kill you..
monQsurlaKomod, I'm writing a thesis for my college composition class starting with Walter Cronkite reporting on the death of MLK,linked to "A Change is Gonna Come, Sam Cook, linked to Ball of Confusion, (World of Confusion) All from utube sources. I wanted to work slavery and prison songs into my presentation. I hope this satisfys your request and hope it meets with approval. Thank you
ok. There were white criminals as well! But wait when it comes to blacks and whites then whites are automatically to blame. Typical.. I’m so tired of people feeling singled out due to their race. Really??? Yes, slavery is bad. Obliviously it doesn’t existence today.
(history lesson whites fought to liberate blacks) <----that’s a shocker!
Stop playing the victim! You have no idea just like me of being a slave. Learn from the past not try to relive it.
I am a white man from Alabama who is embarrassed and saddened that in this day there are no shortage of racist, hate filled people. Why does it matter if some of the prisoners were actual criminals? The pain is real and plenty enough injustice was done to others. The songs tell a universal truth. I pray that not too many are so ignorant to not hear it. Peace.
I'm from Alabama, and I'm black, and all ya'll racist folks need to g'head and come to the new millennium. The only reason why ya'll mad, is because we are still here after all the persecution.. And your girlfriend wants to come to the dark side like her last name was Skywalker!!!
i just wanted you to know that I -the guy who posted this- am a french white guy.
i understand your anger but i didn´t post this to have all these racists comments to be written..
beside of that, i don´t want to delete them because i think that a discussion -with better arguments- could change minds and thoughts..i certainly hope so..
@ikilloflo Every woman I was ever with had no desire to lay down with niggers. You get the self hating messed up white women and think you are just too irresistible. You are stinky, ugly garbage
@ikilloflo I'm not racist but I don't agree with Racial mixing at least for White women, other wise white men should be able to mix with whom they chose but it's still almost the same... Example, I am getting married to my Girlfriend who is Mexican, but if my sister dated a Mexican Guy, I'd probably give her a Talk..
We have the same vile nigger thieves, rapists, and criminals running around today as we did back then. That hasn't changed. What has changed is at least back then whitey had the ability to control these goddamn wild ape subhumans. Now niggers are supposed to be "human" and "equal" and all that bullshit. Jigs even have the "right" to rape and riot and burn and loot and destroy. No wonder civilization is devolving to jungle.
@AlfredSwearengen: Says the white man who profits and burgeons atop the foundation set and cured by the elites of yesteryear-- the elites still in power today; those who raped indigenous peoples of the Americas, the ones who evicted whole people and annexed the 'virgin' lands into the global empire in the hopes of bringing Christian 'perfection' and 'virtue' to the legions of heathens who were by virtue of their customs and beliefs closer to God than you will ever be... you disgust me.
@AlfredSwearengen You know what they say, once you go black you never go back, especially after listening to this masterpiece. Can you just spare us the generalizations stemmed from ignorance, and enjoy this piece of art? Suffering African Americans turning something bad into such a musical statement one which you clearly missed. And i know, you'll probably read this and erupt with anger, and feel the need to post a rebuttal, well good for you man, you represent a minority and that is okay.
I love how there are always racist people on black music sites. They sure spend a lot of time on these site. Makes me wonder if they really wanna be black.
in some of these somgs that were actually sung by slaves, you can hear the pain in their voices. and in some slavery pictures you can see the pain in their eyes
@negus06 Convicted for BEING BLACK?? Are you for real? They were criminals. You are typoical of Black people. Making excuses for the scumbag criminals among you. That is a big reason no one has any respect for Negros. Grow up. Deal with the reality of the degenerate nature of Black society.
@blowmegood1 you have no idea how it was back then do you? how old are you? 10? yeah they convicted black people just because of their color. most of the times they accused them of crimes that simply took place near where they were. or if there were no black people near, they would find some. the rest was easy.
don't you undestand what the word "slave" means? i think you do, and i bet you love that word. i bet you would love to be one of those KKK rednecks or an SS officer.
@xXturbo86Xx Schmuck SS killed members of my family. Saying most of those niggers were convicted because they were boons is idiotic,You can be 100% sure most of those prisoners were there because they committed crimes. Whites get railroaded too.
@blowmegood1 yes, crimes like looking at white women, not going to the back of the train or bus, talking back to a white man, fighting with a white man, or daring to register to vote.
@bruin03 BULLSHIT. Crimes like stealing, killing, raping just like today. You are so eager to apologize for nigger criminals. That is one of the many reasons niggers stay at the bottom of every society.
@blowmegood1 you know, blowmegood, first of all that's a really great name you use, I imagine you can use it when sending out for job resumes, but mostly my comment is that ...here's a song that is just put out there...don't like it...don't listen and move on..and I'm not sure it requires some stupid racist comment. You don't always have to talk crap...or do you?
@slimemeister you coward...you coward...you coward...you come here you talk your filthy trash ...what do you add to the planet except your stinky self and some future lamebrain kids that you will teach to hate and be a coward, just like you . Here's hoping that tonite when you are driving drunk you slide off the road go into a pond and drown before you can reproduce any more future scumbags.
@blowmegood1 You really trust the justice system this much to say that 100% of these prisoners were guilty of a crime? Today people are being let out of jail for crimes they never committed and we have way more forensic tools than in 1947. I mean come on, I don't care if you racist you don't have to be this stupid.
this is beautiful. there are times in church where the old folks sound just like this. I don't want this type of soul to die with the older generation. its so beautiful.
People need to get over slavery...it was almost 100 years ago!!! u dont hear the cubans still complaining about anything, and in georgia they want white people to apologize to the blacks for the slavery....yeah right!!! get over it!
@FUCKMATTZAREK it seems like you wanna fuck many people (i dont understand why you wanna fuck europeans linked with this video, but you have 2 fans, so....)..i suggest you to fuck yourself to end your long career. Have pleasure.
Thanks so much for posting this. It's got enormous historical and musical value, and this music always helps me when I feel entirely at the bottom of the barrel.
I need some help. Does anyone have the lyrics to this song? Also, does anyone know where I can get the lyrics for The Alan Lomax Collection: Prison songs? I would really appreciate it. Thanks!
Please listen everyone. It's not about whites vs blacks or black vs brown or all 3 fighting each other. All this is about is what someone told you and you believed them cause you cant think for yourselves. Racism is taught and not bred. I like for each and everyone of you to make a commitment and make you own choices. Don't be influence by tv or the media. You judge each person by they character, regardless of the color of their skin.
Art History time - The portrait was painted by Sir Peter Paul Ruben several hundred years ago. The Black male was his slave who Ruben did several composites on the same canvas that were later divided and old separately . As for the previous racial slurs, just ignore them. American Black History is mostly verbal and brought down through art, songs and verbal. If anyone is guessing, I'm not black. Ty for your time and please get along.
i am from europe but i dont understand why black usa people love usa and sings usa anthem with a proud.usa is the biggest enemy of the black people.they brought them as a slaves and tortured them and now they love usa?black people should attack usa and make war over there and destroy all america.i can not belive when i watch black athletes play for usa and sings usa anthem
lol pay back is a bitch and GOD is gonna destroy the entire white race and put them into slavery for what they have done to his chosen special people..you negros latinos native americaans etc..
@sebbeas123 the entire BLACK race went into slavery BOY...was that fair?..ok then BOY....so now its only fair that the entire white race goes into slavery to call it even...lol...hey what goes around comes around...arma is a bitch right whity..lmao...and u gona be my personal slave u little krakker bitch...and ya sisters and mother and that old granny whore....btw LMAO.WHERE.THE.FUUCK in history did the latinos had niggers in slavery...lmfao... proves white ppl r the Devil: (deceiver/ liar) lol
@Coolfundylan2 no shit i know that...that why theres black puertoricans,dominicans,BRAZILIANS,cubans mexicans,,,,etc....the spaniards came and stole this land from the native american indians, and murdered and butchered the entire race...smh white ppl are the devil.
@Coolfundylan2 no its not no one calls spainish people hispanic its used for people from central and south america its really that simple you cant just decide otherwise and yea that might have been the words origin but things evolve past their original meaning like the term aryan for example,obviously there is a connection with spain and hispanic so what you said proves nothing other than that,also portugal is also on the iberian peninsula and no one calls them hispanic nor brazilians
@ripgparents calm down wtf you on coke? yes latinos used black slaves that's why there's so many blacks in Brazil. and no i have never said that it's fair that the black race went into slavery (i don't know where you got that from), i even get regrets because of it even knowing i havn't done shit.
@sebbeas123 you white people all u do is tell lies like theDEVIL DOES....u fukin cock meat small penis pissin on ya balls ass krakker..the reason why latinos speak spanish..is beacuse their oppressors were spaniards who spoke spanish...so that krakker language were forced on the latin dick head...just like the europeans who spoke english forced english upon the niggers dick head...smh (white peple are so stupid)...spaniards used blacks as slaves thts WHY THERES BLCK BRAZILIANS AND DOMINICANS ETC
@sebbeas123 SMH white ppl are the devil of the earth and the bible...that why your track record is so wicked and all u do is deceived the entire world...but u cant deceive me devil...that why ima pray to God( a black man) that he allows me to have u as my personal slave in heaven...matter fact ima do it right now..............................amen...n i hope u have a wife n daughters kuz ima have they ass too..ima make ya wife my snowflake bitch..i cant wait...>:)
@ripgparents hahah you've probably never read one word out of the bible you fucking idiot :O so you actually think I should be punished for som shit that was made by white people like 300 years ago just because i happens to be white? you write like a unbelieveble douche.
fuck the entire white race of devils...only the devil would steal a race of people, seperate mothers from children, fathers from wife and and families apart and ship them across the world to a land they know not and force them into slave labor to build an entire country for till this very day...and all you rich with krakkers that have it good in this worl...u benefiting off of what your fathers have done so ya krakker ass will have to pick up the fukin tab.
@ripgparents hey rig...how about the blacks slaughtering the blacks in Africa....hacking to death or cutting off limbs and allowing a slow death...no mercy for any age or sex, and that's in very recent times.....and didn't do alot to stop slavery either, which you could find out if you do a little history research
@yikesoyikes1 another guilty krakker..lmao u white people are the reason behind everything...the hell with a black killing black bs...nothing can compare to the millions of blacks YOU white people slaughtered..theres whites killing whites chinese killing chinese, what the fuck is your point??u talk about history research, i did plenty of it, and the research brought me to the realization that all yo white people are devils for what youve done to the blacks, native indians ,latinos, etc!
@yikesoyikes1 lmao, you just wait, what goes around comes around, you reap what yoou sow, your turn is coming soon for all u white people, prepare to have ya daughters,wifes, and mothers all raped before your eyes,like u did to us,,lol..when the economy collapse and EVERYONE loose their jobs even the POLICE FORCE, theres gonna be alot of crime white boy,sound familiar?(1492) (1620)..lol and while NIGGERS are raping ya snowflake women, no 911 BOY! payback is a bitch!hahahaha see u soon.
@ripgparents here's the deal...I came to this site to listen and see this video...not to get in some argument with someone I don't know, will never meet...and from your attitude wouldn't want to meet. You can either try to make the world better or keep rehashing something that happened long before either of us was born. You can ignore the truth and keep having kids outside of marriage and don't play a part in their life and continue down the same road with the same result.
@littlelouie10 - Look up "Alan Lomax" on Amazon. He did a lot of fantastic recordings of African American songs from the south. There is a series of albums released called "Southern Journeys" or chain gang songs, camp calls, and various other folk music and interviews. This song is included on one of the albums, I can't remember which off hand. Lomax also did extensive recording in the rural areas of Europe recording Italian, Irish, etc. folk music. He was certainly way beyond his time.
To all the haters here....We all are family, you fu**faces.
If you all together were chained to the roadside for 30 years smashing stones, You maby would get the idea. You maby wouldn`t form all those childish "treehouse-clubs" for withes, blacks, hispanic, muslim, christians, parties, rich, poor, and so on.
But sadly people have to stand really neck-deep in the sh** to realize something and then suddenly get the best and brightest ideas of peace and harmony. ahh whatever...
this was recorded IN the penitentiary during special recording sessions, and the prisonners re-created outside work conditions and sing as if they were working like every day.
No wonder they whipped slaves, their singing would drive any white man over the edge! Break their fuckin spirits with a whip and shut them the fuck up.
@MarlboroKnightHawk white boy shut the fukup...u white people stle our culture and left us with yours..ur culture is to rob steal kill murder butcher lie homo sexuality beastiality being pedophile and the wicked of the earth...after all that u whites devils think your so innocent..lmao u aint fooling nobody...the real jews are black but the white devil stole that identity..go back to the caves and give the native americans back their land...before we take it the way u did devil.
@MarlboroKnightHawk I don't get it...what brings you to this thread...you want nothing to do with this culture than why come here to listen in the first place?
@BlacknesUnforgivable If you're going to be racist then at least find a word to describe "white people" that's more offending. The word "cracker" as in "whip cracker" only references to a time where "white people" held most of the world. Here's a run down of "white" culture: Music (Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Western Music Notation, theory, etc.), Art (Van Gogh, DaVinci, Picasso, etc.) Language (Latin, English, Gaelic, Scandinavian, etc.) Schools of thought (Secular Humanism, Capitalism, etc.)
@BlacknesUnforgivable And that's all I could fit in a single youtube comment. I am hundreds of thousands of things, you see. Now don't you ever be so god damn ignorant as to claim that any one person lacks something because of their race-- something that no one can choose. Get off your little hate speech box and learn to love the people around you or else the "culture" you claim to have hasn't ever really resonated with you and the words of Curtis Mayfield and Hendrix never meant a damn.
A great piece of Amercian history here. You can still get some of these old cultral ties
to the motherland in my neck of the woods(north mississippi/delta) by going to certain churches prayer services. These old ways are fastly leaving us though. An african freind from Senegal told me these old ways are also leaving there as well.
In all honesty, to both sides of the argument here, most of you need to brush up on your history.. Each and every person in this song was in a prison, meaning they committed a crime. So no, they weren't just picked off the street, thrown together and told to work. That being said, it would be just as ignorant for me not to point out that the charges that these people were found guilty with were much lighter than it would be for a white person from the same era to do the same job.. Still thou
@Steelman985 - but alas now it is 2011 and you PRESIDENT is black and if you go outside speaking that nonsense you may NEVER SPEAK ANOTHER WORD AGAIN. soooooo, i guess it best you just keep your racist thought all bottled up like a good lil BOY huh?
@pocapaypay Whatever fuck that shit, I'll say what I want. I'm proud of my heritage. That's what happens when you murder someone or whatever crime committed and go to prison. That's probably why the slave songs sounded so much alike. They were prisoners at one point in time.
I scrolled all the comments to see if someone knew the lyrics. Success!
Old Alabama j´nes the state of Floridy, Old Alabama j´nes the state of Floridy, At Mobile, Lawdy, at Mobile. Old Alabama is a hog-killing country,(2) E´vy fall, Lawdy, e´vy fall. Did you hear ´bout that water boy gettin´ drownded(2) In Mobile, Lawdy, Mobile Bay. Did you hear ´bout the men all gonna leave you (3) Next pay day, Lawdy, next pay day. Did you hear ´bout Louella Wallace?(3) Poor gal dead, Lawdy, poor gal dead.
u just know 99% of those men were locked up for some stupid ass charge like drinkin from a white only fountain or looking at a white woman when she was on her period or some stupid shit,,,man thats sad.
@BigSmoke2222 can u prove it fuck face? infact all the evidence points to widespread corruption when it came to incarcerating young black men,,,read a book douche bag! so many young brothers were thrown in jail for the most unbelieveable bullshit.
@locriansrevenge listen i have huge sympathy for black people in america and im sure lots were stitched up but lets be real they do commit more crimes per capita than almost every other race in america,now im not saying there isnt SOME reasons beyond yer control that contribute to this but lets not bullshit ourselves and make it yer angels and its just the white man locling young blackmen for absolute nothing
@locriansrevenge I am a white guy, I agree with you. DNA testing today has shown how many black men are innocent and sent to prison. Back in the old days I'm sure it was easy for white police to close the books on any crime just by grabbing some black guy.
Let me shine my light to bring sight... I will conjure a spirit n that u can not fight... The movement!!!!
butterflysky2010 5 days ago
@BloodOfTheDarkPrince mmm, i don't know what to tell you brother.. Can't understand what the difference is... Everybody want to believe that we are all equal, when clearly Europeans people who have invested trillions of dollars over the better part of 2,000 years establishing "white supremacy". Your name is blood of the dark prince? Do you know who the dark prince is? Is he your father? Is that why you would have an issue with your sister and a mexican?
ikilloflo 2 weeks ago
i wonder if there was any fredom riders singing this song
townshendpettway 2 weeks ago
fukkin bullshit
123lightfart 3 weeks ago
I'm white. This song is still eery and hauntingly beautiful. All races are equal. ONE LOVE Y'ALL
woopyburger1 1 month ago
@slimemeister Your ignorance is incredible, it's almost hard to believe. You sound like your in kindergarden. "Stinky, ugly garbage?" That doesn't even sound like an insult...lol Go get a tan. And while you are there, try to think of something fresh and original.... You are so angry about not having style or culture... Let that bitterness go bro, it will kill you..
ikilloflo 1 month ago
thumbs up for the green mile ;)
alonso090893 1 month ago
i live about 45 minutes from the prison!! very cool song!! love it when i find things so cool about may home state!!:)
littlebigears007 2 months ago
monQsurlaKomod, I'm writing a thesis for my college composition class starting with Walter Cronkite reporting on the death of MLK,linked to "A Change is Gonna Come, Sam Cook, linked to Ball of Confusion, (World of Confusion) All from utube sources. I wanted to work slavery and prison songs into my presentation. I hope this satisfys your request and hope it meets with approval. Thank you
rammitmike 2 months ago
Those guys sing great! I'm glad the chain gang is gone ... or is it??
I think this might be from an Alan Lomax recording. We went all over recording this kind of thing. It is rare though.
wb7ptr 2 months ago
Those guys sing great! I'm glad the chain gang is gone ... or is it??
wb7ptr 2 months ago
Thanks for posting.
blackcatsmith 2 months ago
What are the lyrics to this? I really wanna know this
chelseafolk 3 months ago
Jesus. My mother had this album and I listened to it as a teenager. Didn't realize these songs were from 1947.
brelfan 3 months ago
Thank you, this is an amazing video and song.
Lest we forget...these things are STILL happening in Africa.
God help them and us.
All the best, diana
aussiechickdiana 3 months ago
@aussiechickdiana thank you for this simple and good comment
cheers from France
monQsurlaKomod 3 months ago
@monQsurlaKomod <3
aussiechickdiana 1 month ago
@aussiechickdiana well said madam
bbyyaahh 1 month ago
@bbyyaahh <3
aussiechickdiana 1 month ago
Thumbs up if The Green Mile brought you here.
MyMIXmedia 3 months ago 2
Amazing music, anyone know the lyrics?
pitatapiu 3 months ago
Anyone look this song up because of the Green Mile?
80swrestling 3 months ago 2
i am white
my fathers of my fathers of grand fathers where white
and i am truly sorry for the pain and persecution
but dont blame it on me..but at the same time i would encourage you to never forget anything ..
but one thing i forgot to tell you i am also half Jewish
so know i feel and i understand your anger and i understand your pain
but do me a favor lets show them that we still live!
we still love! we want forget! but we will never ever let them take us down
O6M6F6 3 months ago
ok. There were white criminals as well! But wait when it comes to blacks and whites then whites are automatically to blame. Typical.. I’m so tired of people feeling singled out due to their race. Really??? Yes, slavery is bad. Obliviously it doesn’t existence today.
(history lesson whites fought to liberate blacks) <----that’s a shocker!
Stop playing the victim! You have no idea just like me of being a slave. Learn from the past not try to relive it.
mclaughlin1966 3 months ago
I am a white man from Alabama who is embarrassed and saddened that in this day there are no shortage of racist, hate filled people. Why does it matter if some of the prisoners were actual criminals? The pain is real and plenty enough injustice was done to others. The songs tell a universal truth. I pray that not too many are so ignorant to not hear it. Peace.
claude5950 3 months ago
I'm from Alabama, and I'm black, and all ya'll racist folks need to g'head and come to the new millennium. The only reason why ya'll mad, is because we are still here after all the persecution.. And your girlfriend wants to come to the dark side like her last name was Skywalker!!!
ikilloflo 3 months ago 5
@ikilloflo
i just wanted you to know that I -the guy who posted this- am a french white guy.
i understand your anger but i didn´t post this to have all these racists comments to be written..
beside of that, i don´t want to delete them because i think that a discussion -with better arguments- could change minds and thoughts..i certainly hope so..
PEACE
monQsurlaKomod 3 months ago 3
@monQsurlaKomod post your stuff please. i want to know what my people went through, tell me.
sjsingleton68 3 months ago
@monQsurlaKomod Now, who's stereo-typing?
rammitmike 2 months ago
@rammitmike
can you explain what you have in your mind when you write me this?
(i really don´t understand what you´re trying to say...?)
monQsurlaKomod 2 months ago
@ikilloflo Every woman I was ever with had no desire to lay down with niggers. You get the self hating messed up white women and think you are just too irresistible. You are stinky, ugly garbage
slimemeister 1 month ago
@ikilloflo I'm not racist but I don't agree with Racial mixing at least for White women, other wise white men should be able to mix with whom they chose but it's still almost the same... Example, I am getting married to my Girlfriend who is Mexican, but if my sister dated a Mexican Guy, I'd probably give her a Talk..
BloodOfTheDarkPrince 2 weeks ago
@BloodOfTheDarkPrince lmao thats some of the dumbest shit I ever heard.smh
757CitiesReppa 2 weeks ago
@757CitiesReppa True, but then again, what isn't?
BloodOfTheDarkPrince 2 weeks ago
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We have the same vile nigger thieves, rapists, and criminals running around today as we did back then. That hasn't changed. What has changed is at least back then whitey had the ability to control these goddamn wild ape subhumans. Now niggers are supposed to be "human" and "equal" and all that bullshit. Jigs even have the "right" to rape and riot and burn and loot and destroy. No wonder civilization is devolving to jungle.
AlfredSwearengen 4 months ago
@AlfredSwearengen
if you´ve been black, you wouldn´t have wrote this thing, right!?
monQsurlaKomod 4 months ago
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shortNblunt 4 months ago
@AlfredSwearengen I guess you´re one of those calling themselves "christians" over there. if so what´s your god when his son was a jew.... ?
shortNblunt 4 months ago
@AlfredSwearengen: Says the white man who profits and burgeons atop the foundation set and cured by the elites of yesteryear-- the elites still in power today; those who raped indigenous peoples of the Americas, the ones who evicted whole people and annexed the 'virgin' lands into the global empire in the hopes of bringing Christian 'perfection' and 'virtue' to the legions of heathens who were by virtue of their customs and beliefs closer to God than you will ever be... you disgust me.
paulbachand 4 months ago
@AlfredSwearengen You know what they say, once you go black you never go back, especially after listening to this masterpiece. Can you just spare us the generalizations stemmed from ignorance, and enjoy this piece of art? Suffering African Americans turning something bad into such a musical statement one which you clearly missed. And i know, you'll probably read this and erupt with anger, and feel the need to post a rebuttal, well good for you man, you represent a minority and that is okay.
samslick93 3 months ago
I love how there are always racist people on black music sites. They sure spend a lot of time on these site. Makes me wonder if they really wanna be black.
5150pb 4 months ago 2
@5150pb Hahaha!
k2datrack 4 months ago
in some of these somgs that were actually sung by slaves, you can hear the pain in their voices. and in some slavery pictures you can see the pain in their eyes
AnimeAngelization 4 months ago
your people's pain? These are convicted criminals. They are being punished.
slimemeister 4 months ago
@slimemeister most were probably convicted for being black so stop it theres pain in all sorts of people from godly people to hardened criminals!
negus06 4 months ago 3
@negus06 Convicted for BEING BLACK?? Are you for real? They were criminals. You are typoical of Black people. Making excuses for the scumbag criminals among you. That is a big reason no one has any respect for Negros. Grow up. Deal with the reality of the degenerate nature of Black society.
blowmegood1 4 months ago
@blowmegood1 you have no idea how it was back then do you? how old are you? 10? yeah they convicted black people just because of their color. most of the times they accused them of crimes that simply took place near where they were. or if there were no black people near, they would find some. the rest was easy.
don't you undestand what the word "slave" means? i think you do, and i bet you love that word. i bet you would love to be one of those KKK rednecks or an SS officer.
die in agony.
xXturbo86Xx 4 months ago in playlist Αγαπημένα του χρήστη xXturbo86Xx
@xXturbo86Xx Schmuck SS killed members of my family. Saying most of those niggers were convicted because they were boons is idiotic,You can be 100% sure most of those prisoners were there because they committed crimes. Whites get railroaded too.
blowmegood1 4 months ago
@blowmegood1 yes, crimes like looking at white women, not going to the back of the train or bus, talking back to a white man, fighting with a white man, or daring to register to vote.
bruin03 3 months ago
@bruin03 BULLSHIT. Crimes like stealing, killing, raping just like today. You are so eager to apologize for nigger criminals. That is one of the many reasons niggers stay at the bottom of every society.
blowmegood1 3 months ago
@blowmegood1 So foolish...
ManOfBamboo 3 months ago
@blowmegood1 you know, blowmegood, first of all that's a really great name you use, I imagine you can use it when sending out for job resumes, but mostly my comment is that ...here's a song that is just put out there...don't like it...don't listen and move on..and I'm not sure it requires some stupid racist comment. You don't always have to talk crap...or do you?
yikesoyikes1 1 month ago
@yikesoyikes1 Asshole, I say what i want. Fuck you.
slimemeister 1 month ago
@slimemeister you coward...you coward...you coward...you come here you talk your filthy trash ...what do you add to the planet except your stinky self and some future lamebrain kids that you will teach to hate and be a coward, just like you . Here's hoping that tonite when you are driving drunk you slide off the road go into a pond and drown before you can reproduce any more future scumbags.
yikesoyikes1 1 month ago
@blowmegood1 You really trust the justice system this much to say that 100% of these prisoners were guilty of a crime? Today people are being let out of jail for crimes they never committed and we have way more forensic tools than in 1947. I mean come on, I don't care if you racist you don't have to be this stupid.
GodAloneExists 2 months ago
check out -- DONALD LEE SLAVE BLUES NEW LAND BLUES
donaldleejr 4 months ago
lyrics please...
shedevil92 5 months ago
this is beautiful. there are times in church where the old folks sound just like this. I don't want this type of soul to die with the older generation. its so beautiful.
shedevil92 5 months ago
hey people, I really enjoy this song but I'm not very practice in English, so could someone can please write the lyrics?
GenLodA 5 months ago
thank God someone recorded this ,so much to learn from and so much blues
paulwellscutler3 5 months ago
People need to get over slavery...it was almost 100 years ago!!! u dont hear the cubans still complaining about anything, and in georgia they want white people to apologize to the blacks for the slavery....yeah right!!! get over it!
kristenlynn20 5 months ago
Thank you for sharing this song. I can feel my peoples pain with every beat. Words cannot explain.
Dee9158 5 months ago
@FUCKMATTZAREK you wrote ´´MIND YOUR OWN AND GO FUCK A DOG´´???
1/that´s my bizness, i´ve posted this!
2/to fuck a dog is way to complicated and dangerous!, and i have much desire for my gf..
and she could be jealous....no???
3/ YOU are a specialist to "fuck", right?
´´fools dare anything...and that´s why we can recognize them...´´ Michel Audiard
monQsurlaKomod 5 months ago
@FUCKMATTZAREK it seems like you wanna fuck many people (i dont understand why you wanna fuck europeans linked with this video, but you have 2 fans, so....)..i suggest you to fuck yourself to end your long career. Have pleasure.
monQsurlaKomod 5 months ago 5
Fuck negros long live slavery
Th3lastsong 6 months ago
Thanks so much for posting this. It's got enormous historical and musical value, and this music always helps me when I feel entirely at the bottom of the barrel.
MarieCaseyStevens 6 months ago
I need some help. Does anyone have the lyrics to this song? Also, does anyone know where I can get the lyrics for The Alan Lomax Collection: Prison songs? I would really appreciate it. Thanks!
glorifiedthinker86 6 months ago
i am angry when i hear it
wendy1851 6 months ago
The Green Mile brought me here :)
soprano803 6 months ago 2
@soprano803 same here lol
Bushido91328 6 months ago
@soprano803 same here
sfreak451 4 months ago
Please listen everyone. It's not about whites vs blacks or black vs brown or all 3 fighting each other. All this is about is what someone told you and you believed them cause you cant think for yourselves. Racism is taught and not bred. I like for each and everyone of you to make a commitment and make you own choices. Don't be influence by tv or the media. You judge each person by they character, regardless of the color of their skin.
fozrockski 6 months ago
Art History time - The portrait was painted by Sir Peter Paul Ruben several hundred years ago. The Black male was his slave who Ruben did several composites on the same canvas that were later divided and old separately . As for the previous racial slurs, just ignore them. American Black History is mostly verbal and brought down through art, songs and verbal. If anyone is guessing, I'm not black. Ty for your time and please get along.
fozrockski 6 months ago
if I givethis a thumbs up or down, what will it be saying?
drinkspecials 6 months ago
I would love to have this song to teach history
Fishervillecowboy 7 months ago
i am from europe but i dont understand why black usa people love usa and sings usa anthem with a proud.usa is the biggest enemy of the black people.they brought them as a slaves and tortured them and now they love usa?black people should attack usa and make war over there and destroy all america.i can not belive when i watch black athletes play for usa and sings usa anthem
dzonikarter 7 months ago
Does anybody knows where I can find the lyrics?
86redskinhead 7 months ago
7 people are racist
jacksondemarre 7 months ago
lol pay back is a bitch and GOD is gonna destroy the entire white race and put them into slavery for what they have done to his chosen special people..you negros latinos native americaans etc..
ripgparents 7 months ago
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@ripgparents You all maybe spacial people but not gods chosen people.
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sebbeas123 7 months ago
@ripgparents You can't blame the whole white race you fucking idiot. I've neever done anything to you, plus the latinos used African slaves too.
sebbeas123 7 months ago
@sebbeas123 the entire BLACK race went into slavery BOY...was that fair?..ok then BOY....so now its only fair that the entire white race goes into slavery to call it even...lol...hey what goes around comes around...arma is a bitch right whity..lmao...and u gona be my personal slave u little krakker bitch...and ya sisters and mother and that old granny whore....btw LMAO.WHERE.THE.FUUCK in history did the latinos had niggers in slavery...lmfao... proves white ppl r the Devil: (deceiver/ liar) lol
ripgparents 6 months ago
@ripgparents You know that the Spaniards enslaved Africans, right?
Coolfundylan2 6 months ago
@Coolfundylan2 no shit i know that...that why theres black puertoricans,dominicans,BRAZILIANS,cubans mexicans,,,,etc....the spaniards came and stole this land from the native american indians, and murdered and butchered the entire race...smh white ppl are the devil.
ripgparents 6 months ago
@ripgparents Right, I just brought that up because Spaniards are Hispanic. Therefore your comment about how Hispanics never owning slaves is false.
Coolfundylan2 6 months ago
@Coolfundylan2 spaniards are spaniards,when they mixed with natives the offspring were hispanic completely different
gt2e 6 months ago
@gt2e Hispanic derives from the word Hispania, the name given to the Iberian Peninsula. So yes, Spaniards are Hispanic.
Coolfundylan2 6 months ago
@Coolfundylan2 no its not no one calls spainish people hispanic its used for people from central and south america its really that simple you cant just decide otherwise and yea that might have been the words origin but things evolve past their original meaning like the term aryan for example,obviously there is a connection with spain and hispanic so what you said proves nothing other than that,also portugal is also on the iberian peninsula and no one calls them hispanic nor brazilians
gt2e 6 months ago
@gt2e Well, you got me there
Coolfundylan2 6 months ago
@ripgparents calm down wtf you on coke? yes latinos used black slaves that's why there's so many blacks in Brazil. and no i have never said that it's fair that the black race went into slavery (i don't know where you got that from), i even get regrets because of it even knowing i havn't done shit.
sebbeas123 6 months ago
@sebbeas123 you white people all u do is tell lies like theDEVIL DOES....u fukin cock meat small penis pissin on ya balls ass krakker..the reason why latinos speak spanish..is beacuse their oppressors were spaniards who spoke spanish...so that krakker language were forced on the latin dick head...just like the europeans who spoke english forced english upon the niggers dick head...smh (white peple are so stupid)...spaniards used blacks as slaves thts WHY THERES BLCK BRAZILIANS AND DOMINICANS ETC
ripgparents 6 months ago
@sebbeas123 SMH white ppl are the devil of the earth and the bible...that why your track record is so wicked and all u do is deceived the entire world...but u cant deceive me devil...that why ima pray to God( a black man) that he allows me to have u as my personal slave in heaven...matter fact ima do it right now..............................amen...n i hope u have a wife n daughters kuz ima have they ass too..ima make ya wife my snowflake bitch..i cant wait...>:)
ripgparents 6 months ago
@ripgparents hahah you've probably never read one word out of the bible you fucking idiot :O so you actually think I should be punished for som shit that was made by white people like 300 years ago just because i happens to be white? you write like a unbelieveble douche.
sebbeas123 6 months ago
fuck the entire white race of devils...only the devil would steal a race of people, seperate mothers from children, fathers from wife and and families apart and ship them across the world to a land they know not and force them into slave labor to build an entire country for till this very day...and all you rich with krakkers that have it good in this worl...u benefiting off of what your fathers have done so ya krakker ass will have to pick up the fukin tab.
ripgparents 7 months ago
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sebbeas123 7 months ago
@ripgparents hey rig...how about the blacks slaughtering the blacks in Africa....hacking to death or cutting off limbs and allowing a slow death...no mercy for any age or sex, and that's in very recent times.....and didn't do alot to stop slavery either, which you could find out if you do a little history research
yikesoyikes1 1 month ago
@yikesoyikes1 another guilty krakker..lmao u white people are the reason behind everything...the hell with a black killing black bs...nothing can compare to the millions of blacks YOU white people slaughtered..theres whites killing whites chinese killing chinese, what the fuck is your point??u talk about history research, i did plenty of it, and the research brought me to the realization that all yo white people are devils for what youve done to the blacks, native indians ,latinos, etc!
ripgparents 1 month ago
@yikesoyikes1 lmao, you just wait, what goes around comes around, you reap what yoou sow, your turn is coming soon for all u white people, prepare to have ya daughters,wifes, and mothers all raped before your eyes,like u did to us,,lol..when the economy collapse and EVERYONE loose their jobs even the POLICE FORCE, theres gonna be alot of crime white boy,sound familiar?(1492) (1620)..lol and while NIGGERS are raping ya snowflake women, no 911 BOY! payback is a bitch!hahahaha see u soon.
ripgparents 1 month ago
@ripgparents here's the deal...I came to this site to listen and see this video...not to get in some argument with someone I don't know, will never meet...and from your attitude wouldn't want to meet. You can either try to make the world better or keep rehashing something that happened long before either of us was born. You can ignore the truth and keep having kids outside of marriage and don't play a part in their life and continue down the same road with the same result.
yikesoyikes1 4 weeks ago
@yikesoyikes1 NO! ima tell you the fuking deal..prepare youself along with your wife children and family for slavery under the so called Black Man!
see you soo Bitch.
ripgparents 2 weeks ago
Where can I get this song?
littlelouie10 7 months ago
@littlelouie10 i could send it to you by mail if you want.....???? (send me a personal message on my channel if you want it!! ;) )
monQsurlaKomod 7 months ago
@monQsurlaKomod Okay, I sent you a private message.
littlelouie10 7 months ago
@littlelouie10 - Look up "Alan Lomax" on Amazon. He did a lot of fantastic recordings of African American songs from the south. There is a series of albums released called "Southern Journeys" or chain gang songs, camp calls, and various other folk music and interviews. This song is included on one of the albums, I can't remember which off hand. Lomax also did extensive recording in the rural areas of Europe recording Italian, Irish, etc. folk music. He was certainly way beyond his time.
DarkGift1 7 months ago
@DarkGift1 Thank you miss!
littlelouie10 7 months ago
@littlelouie10 - You're very welcome! Always willing to share information. And I'm a dude. :)
DarkGift1 7 months ago
@littlelouie10 Hi can I get a copy of this like on a cd ? Do you have the woman 1 too with the three songs on it
jabezdavis 5 months ago
@jabezdavis jabezdavis@yahoo.com
jabezdavis 5 months ago
Respond to this video... Great Music Very powerful you can feel their pain in there voice.
jabezdavis 5 months ago
@littlelouie10 It's on 'Prison Songs Vol 1: Murderous Home', you can get it off amazon or ebay.
ZagiEscobar 4 months ago
To all the haters here....We all are family, you fu**faces.
If you all together were chained to the roadside for 30 years smashing stones, You maby would get the idea. You maby wouldn`t form all those childish "treehouse-clubs" for withes, blacks, hispanic, muslim, christians, parties, rich, poor, and so on.
But sadly people have to stand really neck-deep in the sh** to realize something and then suddenly get the best and brightest ideas of peace and harmony. ahh whatever...
Bonzenpunk 8 months ago
@Bonzenpunk Have a drink and sit down.
Willinthehall 8 months ago
this was recorded IN the penitentiary during special recording sessions, and the prisonners re-created outside work conditions and sing as if they were working like every day.
monQsurlaKomod 8 months ago 2
So this was actually recorded when these men were working???
This is completely mind-blowing. Chills.
Existantia 8 months ago
what would the guard thought when he heard this
fryskbloed 8 months ago
No wonder they whipped slaves, their singing would drive any white man over the edge! Break their fuckin spirits with a whip and shut them the fuck up.
pyramidsofgizah 8 months ago
@pyramidsofgizah I guess they were jealous because their peckerwood race lacked culture
like the contemporary crackers of today lack culture
BlacknesUnforgivable 8 months ago
@BlacknesUnforgivable
So...loud thumping jungle music, saggy pants, the use of illegal drugs, and beating women is CULTURE???
Boy, if that's culture...you keep that among your own kind...we want NOTHIN to do with it.
Stay away from my people...and we'll stay away from yours.
Don't buy into the liberal media's bullshit...Whites and Blacks never get along....it's best if we just avoid each other.
MarlboroKnightHawk 8 months ago
@MarlboroKnightHawk And incest,bestiality,Budweiser beer,pill popping , and beating up women is white american culture.
I agree about blacks and whites not getting along , keep the cultures separate
BlacknesUnforgivable 8 months ago
@MarlboroKnightHawk white boy shut the fukup...u white people stle our culture and left us with yours..ur culture is to rob steal kill murder butcher lie homo sexuality beastiality being pedophile and the wicked of the earth...after all that u whites devils think your so innocent..lmao u aint fooling nobody...the real jews are black but the white devil stole that identity..go back to the caves and give the native americans back their land...before we take it the way u did devil.
ripgparents 6 months ago
@ripgparents
1. Homosexuality has been around since the beginning of civilization...(in some cases even before that)....in ALL cultures. Including yours.
2. What you 'people', and i use that word loosely, have...isn't culture.
I love how black people always side with jews, illegal spicks and red fucks (native americans) against White people...
Because White people fucked all of you over BIG time.
Jews= Nazi brutality
Blacks= Slavery
Spicks: Deportation and target practice
MarlboroKnightHawk 6 months ago
@MarlboroKnightHawk the jews do just fine and with plenty of help from ignorant white evangelical cunts such as yourself
gt2e 6 months ago
@MarlboroKnightHawk I don't get it...what brings you to this thread...you want nothing to do with this culture than why come here to listen in the first place?
yikesoyikes1 1 month ago
@BlacknesUnforgivable If you're going to be racist then at least find a word to describe "white people" that's more offending. The word "cracker" as in "whip cracker" only references to a time where "white people" held most of the world. Here's a run down of "white" culture: Music (Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Western Music Notation, theory, etc.), Art (Van Gogh, DaVinci, Picasso, etc.) Language (Latin, English, Gaelic, Scandinavian, etc.) Schools of thought (Secular Humanism, Capitalism, etc.)
Willinthehall 8 months ago
@BlacknesUnforgivable And that's all I could fit in a single youtube comment. I am hundreds of thousands of things, you see. Now don't you ever be so god damn ignorant as to claim that any one person lacks something because of their race-- something that no one can choose. Get off your little hate speech box and learn to love the people around you or else the "culture" you claim to have hasn't ever really resonated with you and the words of Curtis Mayfield and Hendrix never meant a damn.
Willinthehall 8 months ago
Government has enough money to send HALF of all the nigs back to africa, so why don't we just send all of them halfway? :D
pyramidsofgizah 8 months ago
11cabbage--thanks for the lyrics
9903kateyes 8 months ago
So powerful. Haunting
fozzy8866 8 months ago
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Boy, get your black ass back in that cotton field!
PhatFarm60 8 months ago
@PhatFarm60 if you're talking to me, i'm not black...but, that's not really the point, right?!
monQsurlaKomod 8 months ago 5
@PhatFarm60 haha you wish i would, nahh am i'm gonna run a country instead.
MadMacTabbedUp 8 months ago
@PhatFarm60 You miserable racist beast!
sandysalv 6 months ago
@PhatFarm60 FUCKING RACIST ASSHOLE!!!
idk393931 6 months ago
i Live In Jamaica And Thou We Have An Interesting Past i Find The Us More Interesting
glamgril87 8 months ago
A great piece of Amercian history here. You can still get some of these old cultral ties
to the motherland in my neck of the woods(north mississippi/delta) by going to certain churches prayer services. These old ways are fastly leaving us though. An african freind from Senegal told me these old ways are also leaving there as well.
mixmixsim 9 months ago
In all honesty, to both sides of the argument here, most of you need to brush up on your history.. Each and every person in this song was in a prison, meaning they committed a crime. So no, they weren't just picked off the street, thrown together and told to work. That being said, it would be just as ignorant for me not to point out that the charges that these people were found guilty with were much lighter than it would be for a white person from the same era to do the same job.. Still thou
PrinceHector100 9 months ago
i sing this when i chop wood :) it helps
breakdancingzombies 11 months ago
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now only if the nigs now adays would sing this isntead of that coon music
raptorjesust12 11 months ago
@raptorjesust12 haha yeah
carolina52beason 10 months ago
Old Alabama j´nes the state of Floridy, (2)
At Mobile, Lawdy, at Mobile.
Old Alabama is a hog-killin country, (2)
E´vy fall, Lawdy, e´vy fall.
Did you hear ´bout that water boy gettin´ drownded, (2)
In Mobile, Lawdy, Mobile Bay.
Did you hear ´bout the men all gonna leave you, (3)
Next pay day, Lawdy, next pay day.
Did you hear ´bout Louella Wallace, (3)
Poor gal dead, Lawdy, poor gal dead.
otacon451 11 months ago
A great historical piece of music and film.
alwerner49 11 months ago
I sing this when I do the dishes
ElvisLivesUpstairs 1 year ago 43
@ElvisLivesUpstairs what are the lyrics? I can't find em anywhere
dewytripp 11 months ago
@ElvisLivesUpstairs yes...the dishes are just the same with the slavery:P//i'm just kidding:)
Vaggeo92 5 months ago
@Vaggeo92 LOL that wasn't funny :P
ManOfBamboo 5 months ago
All i can envision is sitting up on my horse with my shotgun and every now and then cracking my whip.
Steelman985 1 year ago
@Steelman985 - but alas now it is 2011 and you PRESIDENT is black and if you go outside speaking that nonsense you may NEVER SPEAK ANOTHER WORD AGAIN. soooooo, i guess it best you just keep your racist thought all bottled up like a good lil BOY huh?
pocapaypay 10 months ago
@pocapaypay Whatever fuck that shit, I'll say what I want. I'm proud of my heritage. That's what happens when you murder someone or whatever crime committed and go to prison. That's probably why the slave songs sounded so much alike. They were prisoners at one point in time.
Steelman985 10 months ago
@pocapaypay
Fuck you you punk ass bitch.
keithradamsstatus 8 months ago
amazing.....our people always found a way to get through the toughest times!
scharea777 1 year ago
If they didn't want to get encarcerated so unjustly then they shouldn't have came to the U.S in the first place.
Hahahahhahahahhahaha, i'm just kidding.
Don't no one get sore o'er that there joke.
TheGreat90 1 year ago
@TheGreat90 That was meant to be a joke? Why not just leave it to yourself if you think people will get offended by it!
JezzBentham 11 months ago
This is original american song.
djkurts 1 year ago 2
I scrolled all the comments to see if someone knew the lyrics. Success!
Old Alabama j´nes the state of Floridy, Old Alabama j´nes the state of Floridy, At Mobile, Lawdy, at Mobile. Old Alabama is a hog-killing country,(2) E´vy fall, Lawdy, e´vy fall. Did you hear ´bout that water boy gettin´ drownded(2) In Mobile, Lawdy, Mobile Bay. Did you hear ´bout the men all gonna leave you (3) Next pay day, Lawdy, next pay day. Did you hear ´bout Louella Wallace?(3) Poor gal dead, Lawdy, poor gal dead.
11thCabbage 1 year ago 3
u just know 99% of those men were locked up for some stupid ass charge like drinkin from a white only fountain or looking at a white woman when she was on her period or some stupid shit,,,man thats sad.
locriansrevenge 1 year ago
@locriansrevenge WOW, that makes me LOL so fuckin hard. You honestly think that the shit people do to get here is stupid? Murder? Rape? Nice
BigSmoke2222 1 year ago
@BigSmoke2222 can u prove it fuck face? infact all the evidence points to widespread corruption when it came to incarcerating young black men,,,read a book douche bag! so many young brothers were thrown in jail for the most unbelieveable bullshit.
locriansrevenge 1 year ago 11
@locriansrevenge u mad bro?
littlelouie10 7 months ago
@locriansrevenge listen i have huge sympathy for black people in america and im sure lots were stitched up but lets be real they do commit more crimes per capita than almost every other race in america,now im not saying there isnt SOME reasons beyond yer control that contribute to this but lets not bullshit ourselves and make it yer angels and its just the white man locling young blackmen for absolute nothing
gt2e 6 months ago
@locriansrevenge I am a white guy, I agree with you. DNA testing today has shown how many black men are innocent and sent to prison. Back in the old days I'm sure it was easy for white police to close the books on any crime just by grabbing some black guy.
inkey2 6 months ago
@BigSmoke2222 you're an idiot
JanLuznik 1 year ago
@locriansrevenge they knew the rules damn it
Steelman985 1 year ago
Very moving..Thanks for posting this video.
buildsbest 1 year ago
now thats awasome
kaj6498 1 year ago
IT'S SO LOUD.
JEEROI 1 year ago
it went from this, to: we ridin spinnaz we ridin spinnaz
Titleist024 1 year ago
Heart shattering.
captainahnee 1 year ago