Leadbelly - We're in the Same Boat, Brother.wmv

BIOGRAPHY WRITTEN BY ME: http://sammynyman.blogspot.com/2011/07/huddey-leadbelly-ledbetter-english.html

Huddie William Ledbetter was born on January 29, 1885 on the Jeter Plantation near Mooringsport, Louisiana. He was the only child of his parents Wesley and Sally. Huddie and his parents moved to Leigh, Texas when he was five and it was there that he became interested in music, encouraged by his uncle Terrell who bought Huddie his first musical instrument, an accordion.

It was some years later when Huddie picked up the guitar but by the age of 21 he had left home to wander around Texas and Louisiana trying to make his living as a musician. Over the next ten years Huddie wandered throughout the southwest eking out an existence by playing guitar when he could and working as a laborer when he had to.

Huddie Ledbetter was the world's greatest cotton picker, railroad track liner, lover, and drinker as well as guitar player. This assertion came from no less an authority on the matter than Huddie himself. Since not everyone agreed with his opinion Huddie frequently found himself obliged to convince them. His convincing frequently landed him in jail.

In 1916 Huddie was in jail in Texas on assault charges when he escaped. He spent the next two years under the alias of Walter Boyd. But then after he killed a man in a fight he was convicted of murder and sentenced to thirty years of hard labor at Huntsville, Texas' Shaw State Prison Farm. After seven years he was released after begging pardon from the governor with a song: Please, Governor Neff, Be good 'n' kind Have mercy on my great long time... I don't see to save my soul If I don't get a pardon, try me on a parole... If I had you, Governor Neff, like you got me I'd wake up in the mornin' and I'd set you free


Pat Neff was convinced by the song and by Huddie's assurances that he'd seen the error of his ways. Huddie left Huntsville a free man. But in 1930 he was arrested, tried, and convicted of attempted homicide.

It was in the Louisiana State Penitentiary in July 1933 that Huddie met folklorist John Lomax and his son Alan who were touring the south for the Library of Congress collecting unwritten ballads and folk songs using newly available recording technology. The Lomaxes had discovered that Southern prisons were among the best places to collect work songs, ballads, and spirituals but Leadbelly, as he now called himself, was a particular find.

Over the next few days the Lomaxes recorded hundreds of songs. When they returned in the summer of 1934 for more recordings Leadbelly told them of his pardon in Texas. As Allen Lomax tells it, "We agreed to make a record of his petition on the other side of one of his favorite ballads, 'Goodnight Irene'. I took the record to Governor Allen on July 1. On August 1 Leadbelly got his pardon. On September 1 I was sitting in a hotel in Texas when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I looked up and there was Leadbelly with his guitar, his knife, and a sugar bag packed with all his earthly belongings. He said, 'Boss, you got me out of jail and now I've come to be your man'"

In 1935 Lomax took Leadbelly North where he became a sensation. Leadbelly remained Leadbelly. After hearing Cab Calloway sing in Harlem he announced that he could "beat that man singin' every time". His inclination toward violent resolution of conflicts, though mellowed, lead to threatening Lomax with a knife which effectively ended their friendship. Nevertheless by 1940 Leadbelly had become well known in the recording industry. Over the next 9 years Leadbelly's fame and success continued to increase until he fell ill while on a European Tour. Tests revealed that he suffered from lateral sclerosis and he died on December 6, 1949.

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[sambobla]

we're in the same boat brother, we're in the same boat brother,

and if you shake one in you're gonna rock the other,

we're in the same boat brother, we're in the same boat brother,

and if you shake one in you're gonna rock the other,

oh lordy look down, down is a holy place, he said lordy me wanna see space,

----then i cant understand all the words becouse of his strong southern accent---

[distantbeaches]

3. So the boiler blew, somewhere in Spain,

All the kettle was smashed and 40 cranes.

Steam boat out from the Oregon Main.

Oh, it took some time for the crew to learn

What is bad for the bow ain’t good for the stern.

If a fire took place in China today

Pearl Harbor just gonna blaze away.

[distantbeaches]

2. Through storm and grief,

Hit many a rock and many a reef,

What keep them going was a great belief.

That the human race was a special freight

So they had to learn to navigate.

If they didn’t want to be in Jonah’s shoes,

Better be mated on this here cruise.

[distantbeaches]

1. The Lord looked down from his holy place

Said Lawdy me, what a sea of space

What a spot to launch the human race

So he built him a boat for a mixed-up crew,

With eyes of Black and Brown and Blue.

And that’s how’s come that you and I

Got just one world and just one sky.

[pintukantidas]

@sambobla Thanks a lot,actually 2nd line i couldn't understand

[iammrpope]

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[iammrpope]

Respond to this video... one world and just one sky.-cohrus. so the boat rode on, through the storm and greed, hit a many a rock and many a reed, what kept them going was the great belief, so they had to learn to navigate, now the human race was **********, if ya didnt wanna be in johnas shoes you better be *** on this here cruise. "i give up har har har"

[iammrpope]

Respond to this video..the same boat brother, were in the same boat brother, if you shake one end your gonna rock the other... oh the lord he looked down, amid the holy place, he says lordy me, what a sea of space, what a spot to launch the human race, so if your onboard by a mixed up crew, with eyes of black and brow and blue, so thats how come that you and i got just.

[iammrpope]

Respond to this video... sittin right over there, listenin right in, he says, this is one world and we all in it. its just one world and we in it together, we going to be together, so i'm going to sing to ya, its one world and one sky, its made for you and i. its one boat, we all in it together, you shakes one end you rock the other. i want everybody to take it easy, i

[iammrpope]

@sambobla now i'm gonna have everybody sing in here, i wanna hear your voice in this thing, and i want, i want fred to really get it now, we gonna do this, because this is one world and one sky, we gonna do the same boat brother, and i want you people to join in and sing it with me, just the chorus, and, er, ah, the man