Posted on 07/11/2023 5:48:42 PM PDT by DallasBiff
You may have been singing along to them for years, but have you ever really thought about their lyrics? If not, it's definitely time.
“Brown Sugar” by The Rolling Stones
Some things don’t deserve to be sung about, like slavery—especially when the song uses whipping imagery as it attempts to demonstrate the sexual prowess of Black women. But yet that’s precisely what Mick Jagger did in The Rolling Stones’ 1971 smash “Brown Sugar.” The title was offensive enough, but in the first verse, Jagger travels back to the plantation to peek in on the slave owners who used to make it hurt so good as he sings, “Hear him whip the women just around midnight.”
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just a pile of woke crap..
not worth posting this
“…Dixie Down” was originally recorded Canadian group “The Band” and sang by Robbie Robertson, who is a Mohawk Indian”
I like the version where Levon Helm is the lead singer, one the best songs where the drummer is the lead singer. Don’t see that too often.
In the evenin’ by the moonlight
you could hear those darkies singin’
In the evenin’ by the moonlight
you could hear those banjos ringin’
How the old folks would enjoy it
they would sit all night and listen
as we sang in the evenin’ by the moonlight.
Well, “in context”, as I see it here, it does seem to me that this is a characterization of the combatants in the army seeking to suppress the American rebellion, the success of which is being celebrated.
Absolutely agree, particularly when all stanzas are read, in order and in light of the event, an enemy bombarding Baltimore as Washington DC burned on the horizon..
LOL!
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