Want more music? Check out Innersleeve, WatchMojo's new music podcast! kzread.info/head/PLXtYorCEjScR7Hjc3CLotRzQyxG_tvLis Are there any other questionable children’s songs that should be on our list? Let us know about them in the comments!

@anthonyadams1325

2 жыл бұрын

I'm curious about that title you won't say.

@underland1983

2 жыл бұрын

Man am I happy I live in Norway and not America. I will never ever visit America. Canada and Mexico maybe. But never ever will I set my feet down on American soil.

@Gentleman_Orange

2 жыл бұрын

I'd like a list of ice cream truck music! 🍦🍨🍧❄️😍😋

@Gentleman_Orange

2 жыл бұрын

@@underland1983 Wzll if it can Make you want to visit America, while hitler was putting people in camps in germany, the US was doing the same with asians of their country after Pearl Harbor 😗

@WildBill496

2 жыл бұрын

Many so-called Native Americans refer to themselves as Indians WatchMojo. Also Jingle Bells never had anything to do with mocking black people. But WatchMojo will push out their talking points when they are told. This video was only made to attack Christmas. They do this whenever they have a top 10. They're only trying to make one point and put nine other irrelevant points to throw you off of their true agenda.

I remembering hearing somewhere that Ring Around The Rosie is a song about the plague, or so they say.

@ashlymenard5780

2 жыл бұрын

Well, shit.

@ELmayberry

2 жыл бұрын

damn 😲

@kershabeaver3312

2 жыл бұрын

I hard that too

@BjornV1994

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of old fairytales and I believe quite a lot of old nursery rhymes are quite dark in their origin or about what is. Most of these things aren't just meant for entertainment, it was also meant to be cautionary tales of things that could happen or has happened. So I wouldn't be really surprised if Ring Around The Rosie was indeed a song based on plague deaths.

@TitaniumTurbine

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting, Plague, Inc incorporated this nursery rhyme into their game for this reason. Well that’s dark.

I grew up in the 90's and I always thought "five little monkey's" was about behaving and listening to you parents.

@ashlymenard5780

2 жыл бұрын

Same. The real meaning is f**ked up.

@tariqshaw3132

2 жыл бұрын

No most definitely not lol

@MxPotato84

2 жыл бұрын

Same!! 😭😭😭

@SistaKhandie

Жыл бұрын

Same…

@opfer88

Жыл бұрын

Everybody should listen To their parents, but when they're stupid they should not.

I remember these songs when I was a child. I didn't know there was some disturbing "hidden secret" about every children's song I hear until I watch this.

@billybelk1831

2 жыл бұрын

I happen to love shortening bread and im white.

@drfreud65

2 жыл бұрын

I know, right? Not that I understood most of them when I was young, and no one could answer any of my questions. I remember wondering why the baby was in a tree with Rock-a-bye Baby.

@petesmith5092

5 ай бұрын

And you still don't know. You believe everything you read on the damn internet? Personally I didn't see one iota of substantiation in any of that. Just like the tip of the index finger and the tip of your thumb touching together with the other three fingers extended it's supposed to mean white power... that's bullshit, and you KNOW that! LET'S GO BRANDON!!

Interesting list. Racism is a big issue, but simply erasing it is not the answer, we need to teach our kids to respect differences and teach them the thin veil that separates the world now from the world back then. Put on Dumbo and tech them that the crows were stereotypes and not to associate them with real people, but to also enjoy the movie because of the story it tells, not because of the contents.

@playlister_404

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed on all three parts of this comment. We really need to teach the new generations to be aware of this sort of stuff.

@davyhenry8985

2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you

@aakkoin

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, keep racism alive and teach it to children, so they view people by race

@ninathompson1435

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely.

@matthewdemarco6675

2 жыл бұрын

Racism is a big issue between all races, we may never see all of us come together. But we should keep trying no matter the cost.

So then... "Jingle Bells, Bat man Smells, Robin laid an egg, The Bat mobile lost a wheel, The Joker got away" ...actually makes the song more palatable 😎👍👌

@Potrimpo

2 жыл бұрын

My daughter and I still have feud over, "and the Joker got away," vs, "and the Joker did ballet." Obviously it was, "And the Joker got away!!!"

@trans-dragonroger1948

2 жыл бұрын

That one was much funnier than the original not gonna lie.

@michaelpalmieri7335

2 жыл бұрын

This version was even sung by Bart Simpson in the original pilot film for "The Simpsons." He sings it at the beginning, when he and the other kids in his school are singing Christmas songs during the annual holiday show, and just as he's singing the "Batman smells" verses, someone, probably the school principal, pulls him out of the choir.

@Cahos_Rahne_Veloza

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelpalmieri7335 that pilot episode was actually where I first heard of this American Schoolyard parody of the song TBH

@LittleSongbirdS4L

Жыл бұрын

Sadly, Jingle Bells is potentially one of these questionable songs now, too. I think Batman is still na-na-na-na-not a problem, though.

Somehow it feels like this whole list was made just to add the jingle bell song in it!

@69belhaven

2 жыл бұрын

They didn't even really touch on the aspect that despite being well known as a Christmas song the song has absolutely 0 to do with Christmas either. It's just a song about horse and sleigh races that was obviously written through a racist lens.

@michaelpalmieri7335

2 жыл бұрын

@@69belhaven Who races horses and sleighs in the snow? (Remember the lyrics "Dashing through the SNOW/in a one horse open sleigh")

@69belhaven

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelpalmieri7335 winter horse and sleigh races were and are a thing they just used to be more popular. The song itself never mentions Christmas and the only Christmas related things are snow and a sleigh.

I played Ten Little Indians at a live performance once when I saw children in the crowd. To test if they knew it... I hate to confirm this, but they knew every word

@JadenYukifan28

2 жыл бұрын

There was another song that was similar to "Ten Little Indians" but involved Monkeys, but I think it would also apply to the latter as well

@TheDastardlyDipshits

2 жыл бұрын

@@JadenYukifan28 yeah

@JadenYukifan28

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheDastardlyDipshits Never thought these songs were dark

@michaelpalmieri7335

2 жыл бұрын

A few months ago, I saw a KZread video that also featured songs and nursery rhymes that originally had racist undertones. Among other things, it said that "10 Little Indians" was originally called "10 Little Niggers." Some historians say that the word "Indians" wasn't aimed at our Native Americans and that the "N-word" wasn't meant as a slur against black Americans, that both words were really targeted towards the people of India, which, at the time the song was written, was still a colony of the British Empire. The theory is that a Britisher wrote the song for the purpose of depicting the natives of India as an inferior race, because of the color of their skins, and implying that the people of the United Kingdom were superior because they were white, and therefore, had the right to rule over India and other countries and peoples considered "inferior." In short, "10 Little Indians" may have been written so the British could show who was boss over India. By the way, despite what the narrator says, not all of the "10 Little Indians" are killed. For example, one verse says: "Nine Little Indian boys sleeping in late, One overslept, and then there were eight." Another verse goes: "Eight Little Indian boys traveling in Devon, One said he'd stay there, And then there were seven." Another goes: "Five Little Indian boys going In for law, One got in Chancery, And then there were four." There are actually other versions of the tune with different lyrics. A few were about each of the "Indians" being killed. But while the original ended with: "One Little Indian boy left all alone, He went and hanged himself, And then there were none," another take on the song had a happier ending: "One Little Indian boy left all alone, HE GOT MARRIED And then there were none." The latter fact was even mentioned in the stage play version of Agatha Christie's mystery novel "And Then There Were None" (later retitled "Ten Little Indians," which was also the title of several movie versions of the story), in which two of the ten people, a man and a woman, who were supposed to have been killed, are still alive, have exposed the real killer (one of the guests, who had faked his own "murder" so he could continue his deadly spree), and apparently, decide to become husband and wife. This is in contrast to the ending of the novel, in which all ten of the guests are murdered, and then a squad of Scotland Yard detectives explore the scene of the crimes, but they can't figure out the mystery. A few months later, someone on a boat discovers a written confession by the murderer explaining in detail how he committed each slaying, how he had pretended to be slain too, and then went on to finish off the rest of his victims before taking his own life (he was dying anyway) in a manner that looked like murder.

Next do top ten kids songs with dark origins. (Like Ring around the Rosie being about the Bubonic plague).

@ashlymenard5780

2 жыл бұрын

I'm strangely intrigued to see what other nursery rhymes have messed up origins.

@kershabeaver3312

2 жыл бұрын

That's a good one

@SFascetta777

2 жыл бұрын

@@ashlymenard5780 Way too many of them actually

@rachelvaughan8677

2 жыл бұрын

Jack and Jill; is supposedly about King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution. King Louis XVI was beheaded (lost his crown) during the Reign of Terror. Shortly after, Marie Antoinette was also beheaded (came tumbling after).

@bellestrange1951

2 жыл бұрын

It's never been definitively proven it was about the plague

This goes out to everyone who can read this. We wish you and yours all the VERY best in these VERY trying times. Spread good vibes and positivity everywhere and stay safe. Merry Christmas. Have a GREAT Holiday Season everyone. ✌😀

@carminecdinoproductions

2 жыл бұрын

Yep! Have yourself a very Merry Christmas!

@Gentleman_Orange

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! That's way better than the spams "praise the lord before the end!" lol

@SongsForVeterans

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gentleman_Orange you're very welcome.

Number 1: songs sung by kids on Xbox live chat

@CeaserBTradeGang

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@ELmayberry

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@Reaperguy67

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 I beat you remember how people use to play there music through game chat . That was annoying .

Uh, it was not really a revalation that I've Been Working on the Railroad was about slaves. Lots of folk songs are. And it was likely written and sung by the very same slaves. Our modern version is likely a mash up of three songs. And the Someone in the kitchen with Dinah part is hardly a revalation either. There are more verses, one is Someone's Making Love with Dinah...

@leechjim8023

Жыл бұрын

I always understood that it was written post civil war and that Dinah was a locomotive that blew it's whistle to start and end the work day.

@TheRagingPlatypus

Жыл бұрын

@@leechjim8023 I always knew it to be an old slave song that got taken to the railroad and then modified.

I've listened to 'Tie me Kangaroo Down, Sport' for years, I had no idea about racist lyrics!!

Turkey in the Straw came from the irish ballad The Old Rose Tree(1795) in 1820. When the minstrel shows used it they changed it to match their shows. The original the most racist thing was a monkey sitting on a pile of hay.

@briansullivan5908

2 жыл бұрын

Didn’t know there were monkeys in Ireland. Isn’t that a pretty bad climate for most monkey species?

@chubbiMommi

2 жыл бұрын

@@briansullivan5908 You...are...joking... right?

@Nyanek0

Жыл бұрын

I thought turkey in a straw was a pretty harmless song until somebody used the tune and made a racist song called "n word love a watermelon"

@Anarcho-Stupidity

5 ай бұрын

They were already speaking of that

0:28 I've been working on the railroad 10 1:35 Tie me kangaroo down,sport 9 2:30 Jim along Josie 8 3:29 Pick a bale of cotton 7 4:31 Camptown races 6 5:38 Ten little Indians 5 6:25 Oh Susanna 4 7:19 Shortin' bread & Five little monkeys 3 8:26 Turkey in the straw (The ice cream truck song) 2 10:07 Jingle Bells

@ashlymenard5780

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Mr. Helpful.

@moviesignsol

2 жыл бұрын

@@ashlymenard5780 YW

@ashlymenard5780

2 жыл бұрын

@@moviesignsol I was trying to make a meme reference.

@moviesignsol

2 жыл бұрын

@@ashlymenard5780 whoops.

@ashlymenard5780

2 жыл бұрын

@@moviesignsol It's okay.

I’m surprised Zip a dee do da, zip a dee day, or whatever it’s called isn’t on here. I read somewhere that the Disney movie Song of the South had it and it had all these racial undertones to it.

@tiffanydegoya

2 жыл бұрын

was thinking the same

@Reaperguy67

2 жыл бұрын

You know what's crazy about that song. It is played during splash mountain at magic kingdom. That ride is getting changed as well .

@punkwrestle

2 жыл бұрын

@@Reaperguy67 didn’t it already change during the pandemic?

@Reaperguy67

2 жыл бұрын

@@punkwrestle no. It's still the original. It should be changed some time in 2022.

@wackyruss

2 жыл бұрын

There’s nothing racist about that song and Song of the South isn’t racist either. It’s a classic Disney movie that nobody will get to watch because it’s been deemed “racist”.

I mean to be fair, the wiggles sang a song saying “ I’ve got the clap and I’m giving it to you.”

@siniebeck4821

2 жыл бұрын

That was a parody. Not actually The Wiggles.

@moinmahmud6265

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@damnedash9526

2 жыл бұрын

Lol!! Wow. You're for real, aren't you? Lol That, um... wasn't The Wiggles and was a joke song.

@jenniferferguson1517

2 жыл бұрын

@@damnedash9526lol wow you kiddos really get your panties in a twist when you dare speak I’ll of your hero. Grow up there little one.

@damnedash9526

2 жыл бұрын

@@jenniferferguson1517 LOL Is that supposed to be some kind of "burn?" LOL Good job, there, cupcake! You just keep doing you! We're all very impressed I'm sure!

Are you going to elaborate on WHY Jingle Bells is so horrible??

@damnedash9526

2 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU. I got nothing and I've been reciting it in my head over and over on how it could be racist. I think that one is reaching a bit. Guess what? Lol Still gonna play it at Christmas. Sorry Not Sorry.

@chubbiMommi

2 жыл бұрын

They literally said why.

@mauriciovalencia3374

2 жыл бұрын

They said it was written to mock black people that wanted to be part of the winter activities… ‘laughing all the way hahaha’…. This was based on research but it’s so hidden that no one cares it’s too far fetch

@damnedash9526

2 жыл бұрын

@@mauriciovalencia3374 It IS too deep and far-fetched. At least, too much for me to suddenly be like "welp... that does it. Never playing Jingle Bells again." Lol I care, but if I need to go that left field as to why the song is wrong and interpret the lyrics' intentions I'm pretty sure it's not directly offensive by today's standards. I mean, honestly... up until today, I always thought they were "laughing all the way" because they were having a good time. Lol

@leechjim8023

Жыл бұрын

It is a sleigh ride, nothing more.

Wow, to say that I'll never hear these songs in the same way again is a HUGE understatement! 😂

@kershabeaver3312

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@DeathG64

2 жыл бұрын

Hard R want a watermelon is probably the one that'll hit harder though all these songs are pretty messed up

@thecaptaintaz420

2 жыл бұрын

Lol then you're weak and get offended on the behalf of others to much lol. I'm colored. And this is part of history. Like many nursery rhymes. They're dark But if you didn't care about before what's the point of getting all pissy about it now

@wmdkitty

2 жыл бұрын

@@thecaptaintaz420 I think people are just shocked that these "innocent" children's songs... aren't.

@DeathG64

2 жыл бұрын

@@wmdkitty As a black man I stopped being able to differentiate the ice cream song with the song I listed above. Mostly because they literally just took the instrumental and started to blast it through neighborhoods.

Sees title: Me: Isn't that like every single song in existence 😂

@GrizzyLatrizzy

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty much! Enjoy the songs you like, skip the ones you don't.

@michaelpalmieri7335

2 жыл бұрын

Don't be silly! Not every song ever written has or had undertones of racism.

Some of these songs I have never heard of. Never knew about the origins of the railroad song. Loved singing it as a child.

When I was a kid I remember listening to some song’s that sounded a lot more harmless than the garbage I have seen on this KZread video thank you for enlightening me mojo!

Not a song, but a rhyme used when children were trying to decide between two different things, EEn Meeny Miney, Mo catch a tiger by the toe. Always thout that grabbing a tiger by his toe would be a suicidal action. The word "tiger was a a subsititute for a racist slur.

@Kimmelbee1

2 жыл бұрын

No, it wasn't. The racist slur is not an original lyric. This originally was a children's counting song.

@AtheistOrphan

2 жыл бұрын

@Condatore - Correct.

@Kimmelbee1

2 жыл бұрын

@Condatore I have looked at the history of it within the United States! It was a children's counting song! The ORIGINAL lyrics were Hana, man, mona, mike;Barcelona, bona, strike;Hare, ware, frown, vanac;Harrico, warico, we wo, wac.[3] The N word came much later, and was a regional change. The tiger was used by people with some common sense.

@Kimmelbee1

2 жыл бұрын

@@AtheistOrphan no. Not correct!

@AtheistOrphan

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kimmelbee1 - The version with the n-word was (sadly with hindsight) the version we all sang as kids (I’m pushing 60 by the way). It also features verbatim in the 1949 Ealing comedy film ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets’.

When I was little I knew "Do your ears hang low?" to the tune of Turkey in the straw, about a puppy with floppy ears. So when I heard the ice cream truck I thought it was "Do your ears hang low" playing and part of me still thinks of those lyrics instead.

I was wondering if "Pick a Bale of Cotton" was on this list. I remember singing it in primary school.

I remember listening to some of these songs when I was a little kid in Elementary school. Tbh, I didn't even knew that these songs actually have disturbing origins until I started watching this video. 😳😳😳

@michaelpalmieri7335

2 жыл бұрын

I've also heard most of these songs when I was a kid, and like you, I never knew about their darker origins. It seems to me that racism is more entrenched in American society than we thought and has been so right from the very beginning of this country. Maybe the creators of the 1619 Project and the Critical Race Theory had the right idea after all, but try telling that to those crazy right-wing Republicans who don't want anyone to know or learn about either of these theories, like Texas Governor Gregg Abbott, who actually wants to make it illegal for the schools to teach their students about the history of slavery in the United States. WTF???? 😵😫😱 HOW RACIST CAN YOU GET?

@geviesanta3631

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelpalmieri7335 and to think that the Camptown Song was one of those kids song that had messed up origins throughout history is just even more messed up. Especially when you consider how many times this song was briefly used in a couple of classic cartoons like Loney Tunes, which already ruins my childhood. 😱😳🥶

I read the article about Jingle Bells, and explains very well the enviorement a d circumstances of Boston when the song was created, but the article never says that the song itself is a racist song, just the enviorement where it was writen.

@GuineaPig361

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's not racist, it's about a guy picking up chicks.

Where can I buy the album!

So many songs I liked growing up have such bad real beginnings.

Can already tell number 1 will be jingle bells

@jonathans.8537

2 жыл бұрын

You are correct good sir

@Ethanol3310

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathans.8537 haha lol just watched the video and saw I was correct

In the novel The Secret Life of Bees, the character May sings "Oh, Susannah!" whenever she is trying to keep from crying. I wonder if the author knew of that song's origins? Especially since May and her two sisters were black and so were a few other fairly prominent characters, and the overcoming of racism was one of the themes of the novel.

@misseselise3864

2 жыл бұрын

i assume she did considering the book is based in the south US during the civil rights era

@LittleSongbirdS4L

Жыл бұрын

Since the author is not black, and MANY people--blacks included, are unaware of these song origins, I'm going to suppose she did not.

Great Mate! Keep it up!

Mojo! Great job guys way to get in the muck of it appreciate you fuys

Start digging and soon you'll discover that everything around you is insulting for somebody...

Ah, yes, the video watch mojo was eager to release since dislikes have been removed.

@jeanbean7183

2 жыл бұрын

This is one of the reasons why I wish the dislike button wasn’t removed

@msoseni8348

2 жыл бұрын

There's nothing wrong with talking about racism

Another one: "Blue Tail Fly" (aka "Jimmy Crack Corn")

I've only heard of "Pick A Bale Of Cotton" from my third grade chorus class and the parody "Pick A Dress Of Cotton" by Allan Sherman.

@melin4ted_bookworm632

2 жыл бұрын

Yea in my middle school choir we learned this & several other "Negro/Slave Spirituals," which by other metrics would've bummed me out as a black girl growin up, but I don't think it was done 2 glorify the origins of American slavery in my best memory.

WTF! How did "Jimmy crack corn" not make this list?!!!!

One you forgot to mention is eeny meeny miney mo. the original version of the song was practically about abusing enslaved africans. One of the more notable changes is that instead of "tiger" it's the n-word.

Wow you guys just ruined my childhood

Turkey in the Straw was orginally an instrumental. Only cuz later on, was remixed to a racist lyric, doesn't mean it was a racist song to begin with

Love your content ❤️ Be safe everyone.

7:22 DOES ANYONE ELSE remember the episode of Drawn Together where Foxy Love wakes up after having a stroke and was singing this song. Man, that episode was funny.

@Specsy151

2 жыл бұрын

For real real, not for play play

I would love to see the Wiggles perform the uncensored version of "Tie Me Kangaroo, Down"! :D

@ashlymenard5780

2 жыл бұрын

Fat chance of that ever happening

MOJO could probably do a list or two about Public Domain songs and the dark TRUE intention that have been forgotten or hidden due to time. I'm still wondering about Foster Brown in Winter Wonderland.

@michaelpalmieri7335

2 жыл бұрын

There's no mystery to that. The character is called "PARSON Brown," not "Foster Brown." The word "Parson" means "minister" or "clergyman." Consider the lyrics that you obviously misunderstood: "In the meadow, we can build a snowman, Then pretend that he is Parson Brown, He'll say 'Are you married?' We'll say 'No, man. But you can do the job when you're in town.'" In other words, the couple in the song build a snowman, which they pretend is the local Parson, or minister, who will someday perform the marriage ceremony for them. I trust that solves your mystery for you.

How was “Jimmy Crack Corn” NOT on this list?

@vishusvic8793

2 жыл бұрын

Right? I was wondering the same damn thing.

@tinotica

2 жыл бұрын

I just thought of that

@eclipsehorse8693

2 жыл бұрын

because he cracked corn and well, to be honest...we just don't care :)

@damnedash9526

2 жыл бұрын

Right? But Jingle Bells is...

A lot of these are surprising but I'm not shocked at all that songs called "Pick a Bale of Cotton" or "10 Little Indians" have racist origins.

I am seeing and hearing all of these songs in a new light!

I appreciate that you were willing to push the boundaries and talk about something that no one else or not many people would be talking about. I wouldn't have even been aware of it had I not known

Eeny Meeny Miny Moe song is missing from the list.

It's Christmas time! How about top 10 things that my true love sent to me on Christmas

I always found “10 Little Indians” to be particularly bad when I was a kid because we were taught the alternate versions of “10 Little Injuns” and “10 Little Redskins”. Both ‘injuns’ and ‘redskins’ are racial slurs, and I’m Native American

@therealboomshlamian700

Жыл бұрын

What the actual hell were they teaching kids in school

Nobody: WatchMojo: TOP 10 Children's Songs with Racist Origins

If the songs have been changed then they've been corrected. Keep the songs.

@BWS891

2 жыл бұрын

While I don't disagree, ignoring the origins of media can veto the history of why the song, story, whichever, was created and can change viewpoints of how the past was for those in the present or future.

@leonardoarancibia75

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with @Eric Norman. Knowing the origins of something is never a bad thing. My two cents is that if the songs have been revised, AND instill good feeling rather than its original intention to hurt, then its not really the same song anymore is it?

@rogue7723

2 жыл бұрын

That's what I say. I _totally agree_ with altering racist and hateful lyrics in songs, but _outright banning_ a song is almost _totalitarian._

@BWS891

2 жыл бұрын

@@rogue7723 huh. Didn't think of it that way. I don't agree with banning reading material especially. I guess the best people can really do is make one another aware of history, and let each other decide what to do.

@NatCo-Supremacist

2 жыл бұрын

Im gonna sing the older ones to spite people like you

A very interesting list. Thanks Watch Mojo

What's the video at the end of five little monkeys from?

Don't even have to watch to know that black sheep song has to be here

"Oh what fun it is to sing a sleighing song tonight" even this line I get that feeling that the word sleighing is not actually spelled like that. Maybe I'm just overthinking it but it wouldn't surprise me

I thought the Ice Cream Truck song was "The Entertainer" I never heard an Ice Cream Truck play "Turkey in the Straw." The more you know! I'll have to keep an ear out this summer!

@JamesDavy2009

2 жыл бұрын

I always heard them play _Greensleeves_ but that's probably a thing for my country.

When the Mister Softie's Ice Cream truck went past my neighborhood, it definitely didn't sound like Turkey In The Straw. I wonder if it sounded exactly like the noise from the other ice cream trucks I've seen.

@michaelpalmieri7335

2 жыл бұрын

Not all ice cream trucks play the same songs. I once heard one playing ragtime composer Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" (better known as the theme from the 1973 movie "The Sting," starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford). Another time, I heard a truck playing the theme from "Chariots Of Fire," and another one playing "Music Box Dancer."

Yeah, I'm not going to cancel Jingle Bells.

@53Betsy

Жыл бұрын

After a while, all this becomes ridiculous. When Susan B Anthony first started campaigning for women’s rights, she campaign for everything. Because of this she was not taken seriously so she reduced it just to campaign for the vote.

Okay, Jingle Bells I'm just not hearing it... I'm reciting all of the lyrics in my head and don't see anything about racism...

@chrismulwee4911

Жыл бұрын

Because it's not there. It's a late 1800's song about fun and frolicking in wintertime.

Stephen Foster actually hated those minstrel shows.

I think Baa Baa Black Sheep should be here. I recently found out that the song was made back in early Britain and it showcase slavery, I can't explain it well since I just found out but there is one thing that I noticed in the song. In the song we know to day it was " One for the master and one for the mayor and one for the little boy who lives down the rail" but that was the modified version the other version back then was " One for the master and one for the mayor and none for the little boy who died down the rail". I don't know if this count but just wanted to point this out.

@LittleSongbirdS4L

Жыл бұрын

Oh, wow! That's quite a lyric! In the US it is usually "One for the master, one for the dame, one for the little boy who lives (or cries) down the lane."

I thought Camptown was a horse racing track, like Canterbury Downs.

@AtheistOrphan

2 жыл бұрын

So did I!

That is so messed up

@CeaserBTradeGang

2 жыл бұрын

Remarkably grimey right smfh 😳💯✌🏾

Honestly, The Wiggles probably didn’t know that the song (Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport) was racist, so I’ll give them a pass.

@johnstrano636

2 жыл бұрын

Ive only heard the song as it was used in the States for a pro wrestler called "Outback Jack" when he was in the WWE. This a poor mans crocodile dundee who didnt last very long.

Jingle Bells isn't a Christmas song either. It was intended to be sung around Thanksgiving.

Wierd Fact: Ludacris added a little part of the Number 7 song in The Potion

Rolf Harris writing questionable lyrics, is the least of his worries in recent years!!!!!

@patrickbateman6885

2 жыл бұрын

That man is not Australian. Australians are people like Travis Head who say oh cunt.

@AtheistOrphan

2 жыл бұрын

@@patrickbateman6885 - Oh. I always thought he was. What country was he actually born in?

@patrickbateman6885

2 жыл бұрын

@@AtheistOrphan It was a joke. He was sadly born and lived in Australia.

They will even say dirt is racist

its like they did all the research but decided not to teach us anything

Pretty dark. Wow.

@NatCo-Supremacist

2 жыл бұрын

that's racist, why associate dark with bad?

@anthonyadams1325

2 жыл бұрын

@@NatCo-Supremacist I hope thats a joke.

@NatCo-Supremacist

2 жыл бұрын

@@anthonyadams1325 it's not, racism is no joke

4:43 I hear that a lot, I had no idea it was racist.

0:12 ayyy its Blazing saddles

Thank you WatchMojo, ill be sure future generations are made aware as well.

I saw on another KZread video, there was a song, " jimmy cracked the corn and I don't care". About a slave master who cracked his whip to get his horse going... Correct me if I'm wrong! 🤔👍

@bingewatcherfanatic996

2 жыл бұрын

You are correct

So play the actual lyrics. How can we be offended if you don't show us what is offensive?

@drfreud65

2 жыл бұрын

KZread would probably give them a strike for it.

@StevenFosdick

Ай бұрын

@@drfreud65 The version of Oh Susanna, complete with the particularly offensive verse that is usually omitted, is already on KZread.

Interesting that Rolf Harris apologised for racist lyrics, given he’s never shown any remorse sexually abusing children

Wow I never knew that about the ice cream truck song until recently I just thought it sounded like do your chain hang low

Some of the songs are racist just by the titles of the damn songs, so those are dead giveaways from the jump.

@Kimmelbee1

2 жыл бұрын

Elaborate. What title of what song is racist?

Zip a Dee Do Dah from Song of the South should be on this list!

@Ragetiger1

2 жыл бұрын

Song of the South been vaulted and will never come back out. So only those with the VHS of that Disney movie or the cassette/record of the soundtrack will even know of that song. I remember parts of that song, recalling it being rather upbeat and perky so it's racial undertones would be easily missed.

All songs mocking black people had their lyrics changed and are still sang till today

Do Top 20 Nick Jr The Backyardigans Songs next 3-way tie for #1 Castaways, Into the Thick of It and International Super Spy since those are the three songs from that series that went memes viral on TikTok last year. You should also include their cover of I Gotta Feeling by The Black Eyed Peas from the Nickelodeon's 2010 Noggin/Nick Jr Mega Music Fest concert hosted by John Leguizamo from the Brooklyn Music Academy in New York since that rendition was top notch

As a black person who loves history, eventually you start losing faith in humans once you realize how terrible people who looked like you were treated just for looking that way.

@xfactor3000

2 жыл бұрын

I know right? We moved to the US in 1998 from Singapore and since then people from my community have been attacked many times because of the way we look. We work hard and mind our business but we are beaten and robbed. In 2009, my 79 year old grandmother was attacked while waiting for a bus and had her jaw broken and hip fractured. She passed 3 years later. As Asians, we have it hard too but we fight forward without harming anyone, yet over 20+ years I personally know of at least 11 racist incidents against us. Losing faith in humanity is something we all share. By the way, every single racist incident we experienced came at the hands of Black Americans. Sad.

@CaliGirlJade

2 жыл бұрын

@@xfactor3000 The problem with immigrants who love to immigrate to America is that they, like you, know nothing about our history. Your people have not been discriminated against based on how they look for over 400 years. You just listed single incidents, you have yet to list systematic, structural, environmental racism, or any kind of racism that has been specifically targeted toward Asians here. Also if it wasn’t for my people who fought for every minorities rights in America in the 1960s to not be discriminated against across the board in all ways, I’m sure your people would be attacked even more than they are.

You literally can't have a discussion on the internet about racism without people in the comment section saying stupid stuff like... _So what if it was racist, stop trying to ruin my childhood, stop being a cry baby and the ever popular I'm blank race and it doesn't bother me._

The didn't mention Rolf Harris' history though.

What were they doing in the kitchen with Dinah

Jingle Bells isn’t a Christmas song at all. Christmas is not mentioned in the lyrics. Sleighs are used from the first snow accumulation to the last snow melts. It is a WINTER song.

We sang "pick a Bale of cotton" and Jingle Bells at my school for a concert

@donovanlocust1106

2 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing you're from the South

@hunterwise5156

2 жыл бұрын

@@donovanlocust1106 lol nope New York

@donovanlocust1106

2 жыл бұрын

@@hunterwise5156 yikes!

@damnedash9526

2 жыл бұрын

Every kid sings Jingle Bells in their school Christmas recitals.

Number 5 is especially offensive as it's original title was "Ten Little N*ggers," as was the first film adaptation (the clip you showed). Agatha Christie took the title from the old English children's song. Thankfully wiser heads prevailed when the film was released in America.

0:32 I've heard that song on Vinko The Dancing Bear By Baby Genius!

For a second I thought while listening to the lyrics for Jingle Bells really carefully I was like "a one horse open sleigh" I thought that had to do with like them having a bunch of Slaves being whipped around getting from one place to the other like a sleigh. However it seems to have been different meaning altogether since it was mocking them for trying to join in Christmas celebrations. It's still bad either way

@michaelpalmieri7335

2 жыл бұрын

It was originally meant to be a Thanksgiving song.

@mlggamer5296

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelpalmieri7335 interesting

I always thought that “camptown ladies” referred to the “camp followers” who followed the army when it was on the March, washing the soldiers clothes as the army marches along with providing other services

My childhood is now ruined

One little, two little, three little … (insert three syllable neutral object) elephants. Whoa, better try again, I’m being stampeded.

It doesn't matter if the song has a dark past history as long as the lyrics are changed. I mean that's like the disney that are inspired by dark stories.

@420johonig

2 жыл бұрын

Disney stories and most original children's stories were made intentionally dark to warn children. The full star spangled banner has a reference or 2 to slaves.

@revengeofbcraig5755

2 жыл бұрын

Well, it’s important to acknowledge the history as well as it sets an idea on what culture was back in the day. And it kinda says something about how still popular these songs are and how ingrained they are in our culture and history.

@LittleSongbirdS4L

Жыл бұрын

Actually, we live in a time in which some people actually know the origins of these songs, so yes, it does matter. Think of any song you know that has been "bleeped" for strong language. Don't you still know the word that belongs in the bleep? Don't you still sing it in your head (or out loud)? Replacing words with less offensive ones does not actually change the song at all for those who know the original.

Incoming Klan Meeting in the comments.

Outstanding report.

Watchmojo: (This song) original lyrics is so bad... Me: How bad WM: So bad that we can play it here, you have to do your own research me:.... okay....