Follow The Drinking Gourd

African American slavery song

Category:

Music

Tags:

• slavery

[doctorpsycho1960]

American slaves followed the Drinking Gourd. Irish rebels honored the Starry Plough. Welsh patriots looked to Ursa Major, the sign of King Arthur. It's a sign of freedom all over the Northern Hemisphere.

[ThePeachyseven]

The song was a smart thing to create, basically a singing map.

Blake

[Redpitbull44]

Learned this in elementary school. We sang it a lot more slowly, and it was eerie as hell back then.

[imafrendly]

the old man is peg leg joe. he helped the slaves make there way to freedom.

[minecraftman930]

am i the only troll here...... yep.

[SuperStarAnika]

where can i download this song for free? please really need it for my history project xx

[The29pancakes]

were learning this song in school

[rich1563]

@myfingerstyley the old man is a symbol for something I dont remember

[bmacpowell]

I am doing that song in Pinckney music class

[mrmallek1]

@sayianbiju thank you. I totally agree with you. I understood marmar's comment to mean that he dislikes this video and wants the confederate that allowed mistreatment of slaves to live on. I did not consider that his comment would mean that other people disliked it proving that the "confederate lives on".

[robloxmaxgames]

the old man is the writer

[sayianbiju]

@mrmallek1 he may not b being an idiot. it could be true. i mean most people who were confederate were whites who wanted slaves and they were also racist. no black guy would make a slave out of a white man but whites did it all the time. id b mad if there were thirteen dislikes. im black and i enjoy the song. it calms me.