Meat Loaf "Black Betty"

a B-Side Song of Meat Loafs new Single "It´s all coming back"

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Black
• Betty
• Meat
• Loaf
• Bat
• III

[quacksacker]

Look my fellow white guys, they're on to us, they finally found out about our secret plans to make all black folks miserable. We might as well come out in the open, the next world wide meeting of white people to decide how we can f--k black people over has been changed from Thursday to next Tuesday. The topic on conversation this week will be how to offend black people by writing songs with the word black in the title.

[billzee123]

Black Betty was a dessert that my grandma used to make out of apples and brown sugar. There's nothing racist about it.

Oh wait, that was Brown Betty. Never mind.

[SigandGibbs]

@88ripitup Do we need to explain to you what a metaphor is?

[88ripitup]

@englishtealeaf uh black betty had a child'''''''vehicles dont have children

[88ripitup]

@billzee123 thats funny right there

[LillyG701]

I always thought Black Betty was referring to Bettie Page, but I guess it isn't if it was written/played in the forties. I always think of Bettie Page when I hear it though.

:)

[englishtealeaf]

Guys. A Black Betty refers to a musket with a black painted stock whose 'child' was a musket with a plain walnut handle called a 'Brown Bess'. It was also the name for a whip, or a vehicle that took people to prison. The earliest use in the 1800s was for a whiskey bottle. Lead Belly's recording was based on an 18th century marching song about, you guessed it, muskets. I'm pretty sure it's never been used to describe a PERSON, though I could be wrong.

[timpani25]

@quacksacker um, this song was sung in the 40's by leadbelly. i doubt that a white person wrote, but maybe so.

[mechanism8]

African American Betty? Oh wait...that's too nationalist.. Betty can be Mexican, Indian, or hell Chinese too... so lets all settle down and sing along to Ethnically Neutral Betty..

[Stitch2333]

i much prefer this version

[1stSaintsFan]

@fffreddie ...I have lived my whole life in La. and Texas and you are correct...Some other info is that a black betty was a musket used in the Civil War.....Who knows but "RAM JAM" nailed it for us rockers...not MeatLoaf....

[lilpinkdragon1]

I think the song would have been better sang in his theatrical voice better, tho trying to expand on the listeners this way helps....BTW, I have a black lab named "betty"