Leadbelly – Jim Crow Blues (1930’s)

Bunk Johnson told me too :
This old Jim Crowism dead bad luck for me and you
I been traveling, i been traveling from shore to shore
Everywhere I have been I find some old Jim Crow

One thing, people, I want everybody to know
You’re gonna find some Jim Crow, every place you go

Down in Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia’s a mighty good place to go
And get together, break up this old Jim Crow

I told everybody over the radio
Make up their mind and get together, break up this old Jim Crow

I want to tell you people something that you don’t know
It’s a lotta Jim Crow in a moving picture show

I’m gonna sing this verse, I ain’t gonna sing no mo’
Please get together, break up this old Jim Crow

Cette ressource illustre le(s) itinéraire(s) :

• Blues et ségrégation

  

• Le blues : de la guerre de sécession à la crise de 1929