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83: 2242: 32: 350:. The role of Joe in the musical was originally written with Robeson in mind, but Robeson declined the role in the 1927 production due to scheduling conflict. Robeson, however, accepted the role for its 1928 London production and 1932 Broadway revival. He also performed the song three times in the show instead of the one originally written. In New York, 435:
revival of the show, William Warfield sang only the introductory verse and the lyrics to the main section of the song, and omitted what could be considered a controversial section, in contrast to both Jules Bledsoe (who sang it in the prologue to the 1929 film version) and Robeson (who sang the whole
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In recitals and in several of his many recordings of the song, Robeson also omitted the controversial section "Niggers all work on de Mississippi...", etc., with its middle portion "Don't look up/ An' don't look down/ You don't dast make / De white boss frown", etc., as well as its concluding "Lemme
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stage revival in 1940.) Except for the change of the word "niggers" to "darkies", the lyrics of the song as Robeson performed it in the 1936 film version of the show remain exactly as Oscar Hammerstein II originally wrote them in 1927. However, after 1938, Robeson would record the song only with the
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Instead of "Ah gits weary / An' sick of tryin'; / Ah'm tired of livin' / An skeered of dyin', / But Ol' Man River, / He jes' keeps rolling along!", Robeson sang "But I keeps laffin'/ Instead of cryin' / I must keep fightin'; / Until I'm dyin', / And Ol' Man River, / He'll just keep rollin' along!"
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From the show's opening number "Cotton Blossom", the notes in the phrase "Cotton Blossom, Cotton Blossom" are the same notes as those in the phrase "Ol' Man River, dat Ol' Man River," but inverted. However, "Cotton Blossom" was written first, and "Ol' Man River" was written only after Kern and
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In Scene 7 of Act II of the show, Joe does sing this verse, but rather than singing "I must keep fightin' until I'm dyin", sings "I must keep livin' until I'm dyin,/ But Ol' Man River,/ He jes' keeps rollin' along!" According to the 1988 EMI album of
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befriended him, who influenced him. He used music as the “instrument of social change” following the path of Paul Robeson who once told him about his guitar - “Guitar is not a musical instrument, it is a social instrument.” His song
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Hammerstein realized they needed a song to end the first scene in the show. Hammerstein decided to use the idea of the Mississippi River as a basis for the song and told Kern to use the melody that the
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Instead of "Dere's an ol' man called de Mississippi, / Dat's de ol' man that I'd like to be...", Robeson sang "There's an ol' man called the Mississippi, / That's the ol' man I don't like to be"..."
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In the 1936 film, the word "niggers" was changed to "darkies". Ever since the 1946 revival, the term has been changed to "colored folks", although there have been revivals that change the lines to
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Instead of "Tote that barge! / Lift that bale! / Git a little drunk, / An' you land in jail...", Robeson sang "Tote that barge and lift dat bale!/ You show a little grit / And you lands in jail.."
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sang a version starting with "lots of folks work on the Mississippi." Also, the phrase "feared of dyin' " (rather than "skeered of dyin' ") has been sung in some recordings, notably
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go ' way from de Mississippi/ Lemme go ' way from de white man boss, etc." . However, Robeson did include a portion of these lyrics in the 1932 4-record 78
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and not in the 1936 film version. (In addition to the 1928 and 1932 stage productions as well as the 1936 film version, he appeared in a
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sang in "Cotton Blossom" but invert some of it, and slow down the tempo. This inversion gave "Ol' Man River" a tragic quality.
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Beginning about 1938 to the end of his career, Paul Robeson changed a few of the lyrics of "Ol' Man River" when singing it at
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on vocals. Robeson recorded the song with Paul Whiteman and his Concert Orchestra in 1928, and multiple times in the 1930s.
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Sarah Lennox (2011). "Reading Transnationally: the GDR and American Black Writers" in Elaine Kelly, Amy Wlodarski (eds.),
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had a hit recording of the song in early 1928, in a much faster tempo than Kern and Hammerstein intended, featuring
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2004 survey of top tunes in American cinema. Its musical composition entered the public domain on January 1, 2023.
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The first known recording of the song was by "Kenn" Sisson and His Orchestra, recorded on December 27, 1927, with
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on cornet. A second version was recorded on March 1, with Paul Whiteman and his Concert Orchestra and
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radio program (late 1940s or 1950s), changed the phrase "white man boss" to "big man boss".
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Here we all work on de Mississippi,/ Here we all work while de white folks play
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Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora
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singing the song with the changes that Robeson incorporated into it.
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Robeson's own 1938 changes in the lyrics of the song are as follows:
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While Robeson's changes to the lyrics were mostly sung by himself,
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on vocals, sung in a dance tempo. The latter was inducted into the
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The Complete Entertainment Discography, from the Mid-1890s to 1942
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song in the 1936 film). The section that Warfield omitted begins:
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The song was first performed in the original stage production of
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in 2006, and a 1936 rendition by Robeson also finished No. 24 in
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together sang a changed version in their 2006 tribute album
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William Warfield performs "Old Man River" (Robeson version)
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lyrics that he had used in his post-1936 concert recitals.
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which is based on the tune, imagery and theme of Robeson's
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1925 composition by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II
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and sung by the artist himself, and is still popular.
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The song is notable for several aspects: the lyrical
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