By:
Tabitha Garnica
“He must know somethin’ but don’t
say nothin’. He just keeps rollin’, he
keeps on rollin’ along.”~ Show Boat
This
song is absolutely breathtaking. Show Boat is a musical that starts off
as a simple happy-go-lucky musical, but then it takes a turn and
discusses racial intolerance. Julie, the
star of the Show Boat, has just been discharged because it has been revealed
that she is half African American. Joe,
the African American who works on the boat, bids her farewell and sings this
ballad about the Mississippi River. The
river is symbolic for the freedom the African Americans hunger for.
I love it because my grandfather used to regularly sing it before I had a clue what it was about. It's amazing in context, though, and reminds me of Huckleberry Finn, which is one of my favorite books of all time.
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