Levees have a long history in American popular culture because they run all along the Mississippi which, before airplanes, was the biggest transport system in the US.
There's a 1912 song called, "Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee" that was later featured in the 1941 movie musical Babes on Broadway. It starred Judy Garland who, two years before at 17, had made the blockbuster The Wizard of Oz.
The song is about folks in Alabama waiting on the levee for the boat the Robert E. Lee to arrive to pick up the cotton from their plantation.
Here's a link to the 1912 recording: http://turtleservices.com/WAITING%20FOR%20THE%20ROBERT%20E%20LEE.mp3
and here are the lyrics.
BARBARA JO: Way down on the levee in old Alabamy, there's Daddy and Mammy, there's Ephraim and Sammy. On a moonlight night you can find them all. While they are waitin', the banjos are syncopatin'
ANNE: Oh, what's that they're sayin'? Oh, what's that they're sayin'? While they keep playin', and hummin' and swayin', it's the good ship Robert E. Lee that's here to carry the cotton away.
PENNY: Ah-ha-ha, watch them shufflin' along, see them shufflin' along! Go take your best gal, your real pal, go down on the levee, I said to the levee, and we'll (CHORUS joins) join that shufflin' throng. Hear that music and song. It's simply great, mate, waitin' on the levee, waitin' for the Robert E. Lee!
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Levees have a long history in American popular culture because they run all along the Mississippi which, before airplanes, was the biggest transport system in the US.
There's a 1912 song called, "Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee" that was later featured in the 1941 movie musical Babes on Broadway. It starred Judy Garland who, two years before at 17, had made the blockbuster The Wizard of Oz.
The song is about folks in Alabama waiting on the levee for the boat the Robert E. Lee to arrive to pick up the cotton from their plantation.
Here's a link to the 1912 recording: http://turtleservices.com/WAITING%20FOR%20THE%20ROBERT%20E%20LEE.mp3
and here are the lyrics.
BARBARA JO:
Way down on the levee in old Alabamy,
there's Daddy and Mammy, there's Ephraim and Sammy.
On a moonlight night you can find them all.
While they are waitin', the banjos are syncopatin'
ANNE:
Oh, what's that they're sayin'?
Oh, what's that they're sayin'?
While they keep playin', and hummin' and swayin',
it's the good ship Robert E. Lee that's here to carry the cotton away.
PENNY:
Ah-ha-ha, watch them shufflin' along, see them shufflin' along!
Go take your best gal, your real pal, go down on the levee,
I said to the levee, and we'll (CHORUS joins) join that shufflin' throng.
Hear that music and song.
It's simply great, mate,
waitin' on the levee,
waitin' for the Robert E. Lee!
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