'I Shall Not Be Moved' CHARLEY PATTON, 1929 Delta Blues Guitar Legend

" I Shall Not Be Moved " (1929)

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[RETRO714]

I never heard this song before. This could have been an "anthem" of the civil rights movement. It's alittle fast for my taste, but great anyway.

[NoRosesForMe]

He was great with gospel. Few probably know that. Beautiful. 5***** thank you!

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

@RETRO714 It kinda was, among other things.

[ELVIS4221]

@PatrickWall12 YES SIR, THE GREAT MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET TAPE

[michael64543]

@RETRO714 It was!!! This song used to ALWAYS be sung en mass at all civil rights, union & anti war.protests. It refers to the practice of using "passive resistance" via the sit-in to effect change. You just refused to move. When the cops tried to arrest you, you went limp offering no resistance even to (as there inevitably always was) non provoked police violence. It worked. It took balls to just sit there, not flee or defend yourself as serious police violence often was employed. .

[monkeytown1000]

Best version of this song I've heard, I love Charley. A blues man doing a gospel song too, religious African-Americans who sang gospel didn't approve of the secular blues at all considering it "the devil's music". Maybe Charley was covering his back.

Here in England when I was young we used to sing a version of this song at football matches with altered lyrics, but that's a whole other story.

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

@PatrickWall12 Yeah - the Million Dollar Quartet rocked the hell out of this number - I like when Jerry corrects Elvis' lyric in the first verse.

[blueflame2]

This song is still a staple for a prayer service at any rural Black church. It might have been used during the Civil Rights Movement but the sentiment and emotions created by sining numerous rounds of this song were long embedded in African Americans. Now days there are alot of people that know alot of facts, yet still know nothing. They know nothing about the hearts of men and women. They know nothing about overcoming, nothing by fighting a thing till its finished.

[PatrickWall12]

Jerry Lee Lewis & Elvis Presley did more or less the same arrangement nearly 30 years later. Gospel + Blues = Rock 'n' Roll in 1929 or 1956

[canekzapata]

@RETRO714 this was an anthem for the civil rights movement from the rosa park incident

[roussos87]

seems to me like a national anthem of a better world.

[SuperPantelis1]

Thank you very much !!! the oldest the best !!!