[Impala64ssa]

A little ditty to get the PC "not sees" collective panties up in a awad (hmm, poor choice of words when dealing with this ilk?)Don't know if Jolson ever did this in blackface. Judy Garland, Louis Prima, Dean Martin and Bernadette Peters also covered this song. SHAME ON THEM!! /s

[x]

Judy Garland, Louis Prima, Dean Martin and Bernadette Peters also covered this song.

Dino had an excuse though ...

[yarddog]

My late wife performed that song in a high school musical. She also used to sing it to me.

[mosesdapoet]

Lyrics Please

[Fiji Hill]

The hit version:

Waiting for the Robert E. Lee--Byron Harlan and Arthur Collins (1912)

[Fiddlstix]

Louis Prima - Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
(With The Beautiful Keely Smith)

[sparklite2]

Al Jolson?  Seriesly?
There's micro-aggression,
there's macro-aggression,
and then there's...
Holy Mackerel aggression.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

That's one of my favorite Jolson songs! Thank you.

Another great one of Jolson's is Chinatown:

When the town is fast asleep, and it's midnight in the sky,
That's the time the festive chink starts to wink his other eye,
Starts to wink his dreamy eye, lazily you'll hear him sigh.

Strangers taking in the sights, pigtails flying here and there.
See that broken wall street sport, still thinks he's a millionaire.
Still thinks he's a millionaire, pipe dreams banish every care.

Chinatown, my Chinatown
Where the lights are low,
Hearts that know no other land,
Drifting to and fro.
Dreamy dreamy Chinatown,
Almond eyes of brown,
Hearts seems light and life seems bright,
In dreamy Chinatown.

[Ben Ficklin]

Here's the Wiki page on the Robert E Lee.

It could hold 5741 bales of cotton

[The_Media_never_lie]

I love this thread! It has really made my day; thanks for posting!