KINGDOM COMING
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- "Kingdom Coming" (a.k.a. "Year of Jubilo"), words and music by Henry Clay Work (1832-1884), published by Chicago's George Root & Cady in 1862, became one of the most popular and memorable songs to emerge during the American Civil War. Though the song is decidedly pro-Union, it was often heard being played in both camps.
Derisively sung from the perspective of his slaves, the lyrics tell of their 'massa' who has fled the plantation in a panic after seeing smoke from up river as the Union gunboats approach. Finding themselves suddenly on their own, they seize the opportunity to capture the plantation's harsh overseer and lock him in a smokehouse cellar. In the meantime, expecting their imminent liberation by the advancing Yankees, they move into the "massa's parlor" and help themselves to his food and drink while they laugh about how fat he is, his rank in a local rebel militia, and how he may pretend to be a runaway slave to avoid capture by the Yankees.
Henry Clay Work was a true 'Connecticut Yankee'. Born in Middletown CT in 1832, he was raised in an ardently abolitionist family whose home was a stop on the famous 'Underground Railroad' that helped runaway slaves find freedom and safety in Canada. A self-taught musician, his 'day job' was as a type-setter and printer for the music publisher, Root & Cady, who published his first song in 1853, "We Are Coming, Sister Mary", later made popular by the famous Christy Minstrels. Work is best known for his patriotic Civil War songs, such as "Kingdom Coming", "Grafted Into the Army", "Babylon Is Fallen", "Corporal Schnapps", and his most popular, "Marching Through Georgia", in 1865, which sold an unprecedented million sheet-music copies. In the years following the war, he went on to write a few that in one form or another have continued into the 21st century: "The Ship That Never Returned", which later became the "MTA Song", or "My Grandfather's Clock" (1875).
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This song was written in 1862, a full year before the Emancipation Proclamation. From the very beginning of the war, some Union commanders began informally liberating slaves, and sheltering those who escaped to the Union army camps. When slaveowners complained that they had no legal right to shelter runaway slaves, and demanded that their "property" be returned to them, the Yankees gleefully pointed out that they had the right to CONFISCATE property as CONTRABAND of War. The joke was on the slaveowners, and for the rest of the war the many tens of thousands of former slaves who escaped to the Union lines were known as "Contrabands."
That's why the singer in the song speculates that "Massa" with his dark tanned skin might try to pass for Contraband, while everybody eats ham, drinks cider, and waits to be "confiscated."
GOOD to see and hear another good one by our neighbors! HOWDY, Lads and happy winter! Hope all is well down there and it is warm today up here. 70! Hope all are well and keep the Faith! The South will ALWAYS be the South! God Bless ALL Yall! from your neighbor from up a ways. Not far, though!
Another brilliant civil war song. Wonderful performance!
GOD BLESS TEXAS AND OUR SOUTHERN BORDER STATES FROM NORTH CAROLINA!!!🙏🇺🇲❤️🎉👍
Despite its pro-union origins this song was enthusiastically adopted and popularized by southerners in the same motus and spirit of how the mocking tune Yankee Doodle was adopted by American revolutionaries, thus Kingdom Coming was very popular with southern bands both civilian and enlisted. So much that it is often mistaken for a confederate song, particularly when listeners hear the line about the slave master trying to "fool them yankees" out of context. The lyrics were written by unionist Henry Clay Work as a mockery of plantation creole, poking fun at the peculiar dialect possessed by enslaved southern African Americans. The song survived the ages thanks to its massive southern adoption and popularization and is now considered one of the most prominent Appalachian southern bluegrass standards.
Hmm! Cultural Appropriation?
@@richardwernig8938 Across the board! LoL
@@richardwernig8938 Hmmm. How very 'woke' of you...
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand Yes, and my purple hair is just adorable.
@@richardwernig8938 I'm sure. Care to explain this 'cultural appropriation' as you see it ?
I always love when you guys upload
Your performances of these folk songs have given me such a ludicrous amount of inspiration for my creative writing for easily over 7 years now
I just wanted to say thank you for keeping this sort of history alive for all to enjoy, and even keep alive themselves!
Another great presentation, God bless y'all!
Sounding good fellers ~ Listening From the Union cannon position in my front yard at the Battlefield of Cumberland Church, Virginia. The last Confederate victory before the Appomattox surrender.
always happy to see another upload from my favorite band
What a banger!
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Amazing performance!
Keep on going, boys
God bless dixie land 🔥🎉
And it's good to see some union songs being performed..
Best wishes from Ulster
Ulster Protestants are always on the wrong side of history
@@mariocanfora9117 I'm not a protestant, I mean from the province not country, I'm a nationalist
Im so glad yall are still uploading these Southern beauty's. Keep it up! You have us rallied behind yall
Hurrah from Virginia
Exactly. They're pearls!
@@Matthias_SZL this is a union song celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation that make fun off slave owners get your fact right
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¡Greetings from Chile, great men!...
Bravo!
I love this one
These guys are great I've seen them perform numerous times. PS I'm related to the author of this song Henry Clay Work
One of Dem dar Lincoln soldiers was my ancestor! Great tune makes me want to dance a jig! Long live the memory of the OVM!
We had one too !
love your music! I listen to it when studying my History A-Level and just about all the subjects I do. Thanks, from England!
Excellent song gents. Thank you! Regards from the UK. Bob
This song was associated with Will Rogers because of his silent film Jubilo and then he sang it in the talkie "Too busy to work".
one of my favorites!
As always a great performance, thank you! Greetings from Bavaria, Germany!
happy to see you guys are still posting! i probably listen to your songs everyday and try to (poorly) sing along, haha! love you guys from Belfast!
I heard the pipes at a reenactment, absolutely magical! God bless you!
Love this. Sounds like they are Scottish Irish?
Thanks for uploading this! It's very grounding to re-connect with our past through music.
VERY GOOD
Love it, gentlemen. You are pioneers of your field of music.
Hey y'all ol Billy is back. Sure missed you Billy boy!!
GOD BLESS TEXAS FROM NORTH CAROLINA!!🙏🇺🇲❤️👍
Thank you, gentlemen of the south. From a reb loving Brit
Abolitionist song but ok
Men of the moment.. great stuff.
Excellent song, bravo 👏
God bless Dixie!
BRO WHAT THE HECK-
Wish I could be American 😞
A lot of that going 'round these days...
You can be.
@jonahguthrie1944ur ancestors sure didn’t lol
careful what you wish for
Me too. I was born in a blue state.
Billy Boy Boy Boy Boy....
one of the best
Love the tunes, fellas. If you have any recordings of Company I, 2nd South Caroline besides the version that's on your live album, I would love it if that got uploaded!
Sadly, no video of that one. HIndsight is 20/20, as usual. One of the best shows we ever did. Great audience too.
One of my favorites. Thanks for this recording 2nd SC.
I think the people who wrote these songs that you play would be indescribably amazed at your versions of them. Phenominal music. Long live my Southern homeland.
clearly you've never read the song's lyrics...
@@kenlandon6130 I definitely have.
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Wow wow absolutly a real jeb Stuart song, going to a grand party in company with gourgeus ladies thank you 😊😊😊
One of my favorite CW songs I have to admit! Thanks for the upload! :D
Always love to see another rendition of this song.
Look at all those young minstrels... strummin' and pickin'... and a'hollerin'!
Keep it down up there! We not want to awaken a free spirit! 😬
Loving the copefederate comments completely missing the point of the song
Copefederate 😂😂😂
the only good comments are the ones referencing the tex avery wolf
Better than anything coming out of Nashville in 2024.
They say these guys are headlining Coachella next year
they should lol
pls yellow rose of texas next
Can ya'll tell me what are the lyrics, please?
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Say, darkie, hab you seen de massa wid de muffstash on his face
Comin' down de road some time dis mornin', like he gwine to leab de place?
He seen a smoke way up de ribber, whar de Linkum gunboats lay
He grab his hat, den he lef' berry sudden and I spec' he run away!
De massa run, ha, ha! De darkey stay, ho, ho!
It mus' be now de kindom coming, an' de year ob Jubilo!
He six foot one way, two foot tudder, and he weigh tree hundred pound
His coat so big, he couldn't pay the tailor, an' it don't go halfway round
He drill so much dey call him Cap'n, an' he got so drefful tanned
I spec' he'll try to fool dem Yankees for to tink he's contraband
De massa run, ha, ha! De darkey stay, ho, ho!
It mus' be now de kindom coming, an' de year ob Jubilo!
De darkeys get so lonesome libbing in de loghouse on de lawn
Dey move dar tings into massa's parlor for to keep it while he's gone
Dar's wine an' cider in de kitchen, for de darkeys dey'll have some
And I spec' it'll all be cornfiscated when de Linkum sojers come
De massa run, ha, ha! De darkey stay, ho, ho!
It mus' be now de kindom coming, an' de year ob Jubilo!
De obserseer he cause us trouble, an' he run us round a spell
We will lock him in de smokehouse cellar, wid de key trown down de well
De whip is lost, de han'cuffs are broken, but de massa'll hab his pay
He's old enough, big enough, shoulda known better dan to go an' run away
De massa run, ha, ha! De darkey stay, ho, ho!
It mus' be now de kindom coming, an' de year ob Jubilo!
De massa run, ha, ha! De darkey stay, ho, ho!
It mus' be now de kindom coming, an' de year ob Jubilo!
Dude can't read context clues lol...
@@kenlandon6130 I asked what the lyrics ARE not what they MEAN.
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hello, first off love your music, 2nd i do compilations of diffrent historical music and i was wondering if i could have your blessing to use your music in my videos. i will provide credit to you in the discripition, if not i totally understand and would harbor no animosity to you
Well, thankee there, Ben ! We appreciate that. Tell you what - message us on Facebook and maybe we can get to know each other a little...
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand alright I will
Literally a pro-union song. Traitor apologists really are dumb.
@@FletcherEzekielYou’re actually delusional
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South forever, standing with Texas from 1845 to today
I am from Spain and I am a modest History researcher. I know something about the war between the CSA and the USA, in 1861-65 and I am fully convinced the south was right and the north was wrong. The south deserved victory vs the north's tiranny.
Don't call yourself a history researcher and make such a claim. From todays standing point you can clearly understand both sides but claiming who was right or wrong isn't very scientific.
I am not the only spaniard listening to this banger! yeaaa! 🎉
Another war financed by England for profit! @@steffenw99
You folks on Europe are not brainwashed by the stupidity of politically correct ignorance.
The South and the CSA was constitutionally correct and right in every respect and our children are being taught lies and propaganda. Hold to the truth. The truth always wins out eventually
Well, I'm Spanish too and I say that you're wrong and your opinion is invalid ^^
God save the C.S.A.!
Who is Gos?
@@tberkoff my neighbor
Racist
Somewhat late
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Odin shall stand with and strengthen our brothers in texas! From illinois.
Rise up South ...no more lying down
God bless the CSA!!! Trzymajcie się dzielnie chłopaki…
this is a union song that make fun off slave owners
God bless South!
this is a union song celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation that make fun off slave owners
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Bless the Southern Unionist
Anything from you guys is a blessing. God save the CSA!
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Kamala for president 💙
Who do you think you are saying “kamala for president” in a mostly Southern comment section? ❤✝️
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I am the guy that turns you blue
@Mythos_Ansteckung_5305 Try me
Oh HELL NAH AS A BLACK MAN SHE AIN'T ONE OF US
Trump 2024 i love my country, We need a closed border, better economy, safer nation, and a restored America.
Good dog, man
Proud family members of the CSA and never forget what that means. And we may have to step again and fight for God and family and country and i still stand by my oath and I am a USMC combat veteran of 2 war's long live the SOUTHLAND
This is literally a slave song celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Coming
Ok. @@kenlandon6130
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God Bless Dixie
this is a union song celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation that make fun off slave owners
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I'm so glad I get more versions of my favorite song from you guys!
“The incomin’ are gettin’ closer.” 😂
SHOWBIZ ! Gotta love it !!
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