"Jody" (Prison work song) 

“I see the captain sitting in the shade, he does nothin and he still gets paid” 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Just imagine it's the mid 20th century and it's your first day in the pen; you wake up before the sun, walk for miles then sing this song for 12 hours with people who've done this for years.

this is truth this is our past . We are strong

For 38 years this has opened my favorite radio show Blues Before Sunrise by Steve Cushing..

Lyrics: I've been working all day long, Pickin' this stuff called cotton and corn, We raise cotton, cane and a-corn. 'Taters and tomatoes and a-that ain't all, Back is weak and I done got tired, Got to tighten up just to save my hide. Boss on a horse and he's watchin' us all, Better tighten up, [if we] don't we'll catch the hall. Wonder if the Major will go my bail. Or give me twelve hours standing on the rail. BRIDGE: Yeah, yeah. YEAH, YEAH. Yeah, yeah. YEAH, YEAH. I see the Captain sittin' in the shade. He don't do nothin' but-a he get paid. We work seven long days in a row. Two sacks of Bull and a picture show. In the wintertime we get dont no lay, Cuttin' cane and makin' syrup every day. When it gets wet in the cane field. All the squads work around the old syrup mill. Yeah, yeah. YEAH, YEAH. Yeah, yeah. YEAH, YEAH. Two more months and it won't be long. Gonna catch the chain 'cause I'm goin' home. Goin' back home to my old gal, Sue, My buddy's wife and his sister, too. Ain't no need of you writin' home. Jody's got your girl and gone. Ain't no need of you feelin' blue, Jody's got your sister, too. First thing I'll do when I get-a home. Call my woman on the telephone. Yeah, yeah. YEAH, YEAH. Yeah, yeah. YEAH, YEAH. Gonna settle down for the rest of my life. Get myself a job and get myself a wife. Six long years I've been in the pen. Don't want to come to this place again. Captain and the boss is drivin' us on. Makin' us wish we'd-a stayed at home. If we had listened what our mama say, We wouln't be cuttin' wood here today. Yeah, yeah. YEAH, YEAH. Yeah, yeah. YEAH, YEAH. Yeah, yeah. YEAH, YEAH. Yeah, yeah. YEAH, YEAH. Captain and the boss is drivin' us on, Makin' us wish we'd-a stayed at home. We had listened what our mama say, We wouldn't (be) droppin' big timber here today. Yeah, yeah. YEAH, YEAH. Yeah, yeah. YEAH, YEAH.

"The revolution will not be televised"...

This is pure America right here

The no b.s. origin of military cadence.

What happens when a tree falls down?

k, i love this. but how thicc those trees be?

thank you sooo much for this they block me when I use it sometimes? in my collages I hope you tune into those? i love the language that gets used like rattler/ pull do /cracklin/ bull/ black betty/axe/ diamond/ hammer/ or characters in the folklore like "julie/ jody /driver /sgt/boss/rider. sadly it sounds more like 1866? and the connection to the marine cadence chants. lead zeplin out right stole that seg where it says "Oh rosie oh gal! from a prison work song as well. and see how it evolved into our popular vcl grps like dew wop /motown and soul? you can still here that call and answer and work songs in most historic black musics its still there

Phenomenal

How does camera have better quality than most androids😂

Love this Awesome singing making music with a axe and sounds that good unreal

Of course, they had chain saws in 1966 which would have felled that tree in 30 seconds. The sole purpose of this is punitive punishment.

I like to think the zoom at the end is to answer my question: are they even making any progress cutting those trees?

When they said slavery was abolished, the exception was for the punishment of a crime.

i feel it

When your dad says is yard work day

ayo got that peppa pig in yo playlists and some pokemon guy in ur subscribtions

Thistle dew work camp Minnesota 1980

is it bad that i wouldnt mind this kind of life i already work myself to the bone even outside of work at least here i wouldnt be alone

Jody got your girl and gone, hmmm Johnnie Taylor was inspired by this?

this is a a prime example of black culture taking white work songs forced upon them (shanty songs) and making them better.

Bonjour Mr Pineau

un montage vreumannnnntttt

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prisons just kept slavery going

WE are the true Hebrew lost tribes of YISRAEL and when the world realizes it'll be too late... Psalm 137:3-8 King James Version (KJV) 3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. 4 How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? 5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. 6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. 7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. 8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us

what is this type of songs called

Wsh les 4C

Small nitpick here. The angle of striking is a bit to high

Need to bring penal labor back. Inmates have got nothing but time and energy to burn. I suspect they will cause less trouble after a hard day's work. There's all sorts of projects that need unskilled manpower - untapped potential for both retribution and productivity.

Bunch of convicts with axes!!!