Ragtime Guitar : BLIND WILLIE MCTELL . " Southern Can Is Mine " (1931)

Blind Willie McTell (1898-1959)
" Southern Can Is Mine " (1931)
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[Amy Neiswander]

The song isn't really about "wife beating" it's about the violence blacks faced from whites in the Jim Crow south. In essence it's a protest song in disguise. Black singers couldn't sing about the abuse they faced from whites without getting arrested or more likely beaten and lynched so they covered the meanings in songs.

It was common for the white man or society to be the "man" in the song because of the powerful position in the relationship. Your southern can is mine = Yer black ass is mine

[John Green]

"Well, I took 'at butcher knife and held up to 'er throat an' I says, 'If you wanna live to see tomorra' you better start frien' them eggs a little bit better'n what you been frien' em! I'm tarred a'eatin' sloppy, slimy eggs!"

[dustasdu]

Great upload!

[MrAm98]

Back to genesis ?? that ain't the band?

[Marina Ok]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[luciano menolli]

è come il cognac piu' invecchia piu' è buono

[skyislandaz]

Sounds like the most phony and contrived white-guilt drivel I have read since surfing the comments board on HuffPo.

[67drake]

And you know this how? Oh,I know, you were friends with Blind Willie.

Thanks for bringing your liberal BS post into a fine song on You Tube

[ModMouse93]

Sad but true for the most part.

[broncofan92slay]

back when black people played good music and weren't ridiculous stereotypes

[0GrandTheft0]

one day I will learn this