"We never learn to read or write", "We slave until we're almost dead", "Grab that rope you hairy ape". Some might find this a little offensive about what the lyrics says; but it is based on a Fact on how the world really was when Walt was alive.
I was blessed for growing up with the Latin American version, because the guys said that they were working there because they chose not to study; so that movie encouraged me to study a lot and appreciate the effort that people involved in very high physical works do :'D
That scene around 0:40 is highly underrated. The train that enters the station in that gloomy setting with thunderstorms and clouds in the background, simply brilliant!
Roustabout: an unskilled or casual laborer. this comment goes out to those honest men who work their asses off in Blistering sun and bitter cold for the paycheck to pay the bills, they are the real man who built this country and keep it running. Lord give them strength and watch over their family's, remind them to smile and keep a prayer in their hearts throw out the days of their lives. we ask these things if it be your will and not ours in the name of thy holy and beloved son Jesus Christ, Amen.
Which is why I don't see why laboring jobs are considered "low-skill". It may or may not involve a lot of "people skill", and not knocking on "people skill", btw, since a pleasant coworker or good boss is definitely a good thing (or one who provides good service to a customer, you get my point), but laborers do have the type of skill to do a job many others wouldn't wanna do, couldn't handle, or do as well!
Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! We work all day, we work all night We never learned to read or write We're happy-hearted roustabouts Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! When other folks have gone to bed We slave until we're almost dead We're happy-hearted roustabouts Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! We don't know when we get our pay And when we do, we throw our pay away (When we get our pay, we throw our money all away) We get our pay when children say With happy hearts, "It's circus day today" (Then we get our pay, just watching kids on circus day) Muscles achin' Back near breaking Eggs and bacon what we need (Yes, sir!) Boss man houndin' Keep on poundin' For your bed and feed There ain't no let up Must get set up Pull that canvas! Drive that stake! Want to doze off Get them clothes off But must keep awake Hep! Heave! Hep! Heave! Hep! Heave! Hep! Heave! Hep! Heave! Hep! Heave! Hep! Heave! Hep! Swing that sledge! Sing that song! Work and laugh the whole night long You happy-hearted roustabouts! Pullin', poundin', tryin', groundin' Big top roundin' into shape Keep on working! Stop that shirking! Grab that rope, you hairy ape! Poundin'! poundin'! poundin'! poundin'!
2:18 I think that's some sort of carpet. I know elephants are really big and strong naturally, but still, rolling a thing like that out takes some power. Jumbo Jr.'s mother is a powerhouse! So are the rest of the elephants, those camels and the men setting things up along with them. Speaking of the human workers, they likely weren't paid much, if anything, but obviously they've done work like that before. Working all night and day doing back-breaking labor like that? Extraordinary people, I tell ya.
"Dumbo was made in 1941 and produced by Walt Disney. The 1940s was before the Civil Rights Movement, and although there was no slavery, blacks were still segregated and considered as lesser people at the time." - Alyssa Nelson
The scene when the train slows down at its destination before suddenly stopping, reminds me of those nights in the warm time of the year when I, as a young child in the 80s living in a rural area, would see flashes of distant lightning like that of the cartoon of Dumbo. I have many memories of watching lightning from my rural childhood home. I never knew the lyrics to the "Song of the Roustabouts" either, and I'm a man not far from 40 years of age.
Flying Scott "I think I can! I think I can! I think I can! I think I can! I think I can! I think I can! I... Think... I... Can! I... ...Thought I could! I thought I could! I thought I could! I... Whoo-hoo!" They borrowed that from "The Little Engine that Could."
Casey Junior’s coming down the track coming down the track with the Smokey stack hear him puffing coming round the hill Casey’s here to thrill every jack and Jill Every time his funny little whistle sounds [train whistle blowing] everybody hurries to the circus grounds time for lemonade and crackerjack Casey Junior’s back Casey Junior’s back Come on everybody let’s help Casey up with this big hill when the going gets tough here’s a chance to help pull you through let’s all say I think I can I think I can. Casey Junior: I think I can, I think I can. I think I can, I think I can. [slowing] I think I can, I think I can. I think I can. I…thought I could, I thought I could. I thought I could, I thought I could. Whoo-hoo! Casey Junior’s coming down the track coming down the track with the Smokey stack hear him puffing coming round the hill Casey’s here to thrill every jack and Jill Every time his funny little whistle sounds [train whistle blowing] everybody hurries to the circus grounds time for lemonade and crackerjack Casey Junior’s back Casey Junior’s back Every time his funny little whistle sounds [whistle blowing] everybody hurries to the circus grounds time for lemonade and crackerjack Casey Junior’s back Casey Junior’s back [engine hissing] [bell clanging] [cabooses crashing] [rain tinkling] [train exhaling]
So what you are saying is if they had bothered to use a bit more white paint instead of brown the Social Justice Warriors getting offended for me would be quiet as fuck?
one of the guys singing sounds like splinter from the 1987 "ninja turtles" cartoons and the door on the train car the roustabouts got out of at 1:13 is the same color as splinter's kimono
Why is this racist? Its an artist depiction of life back in the 30s and 40s. It's wrong that people were treated this way, but pretending it didn't happen is worse.
No Dummy! There were plenty of people that didn't spend all of their money as soon as they got their hands on it. And, they weren't "happy" about working themselves to "death". Listen to the damn
oh I didn't realize the hints towards race in the song , I'm just uh....gonna ignore that and enjoy the movie but frankly I view it as a historical piece of art that portrays how things were in the 1940s
Idk this song has many racial slurs but i think mr.walt disney was trying to defend them in a way if u listen they describe how hard it was to work in those conditions and what thier "boss man" tells them to do so i think mr. Disney was trying to show how hard they have to work and stuff idk its my opinion.
Hey, I. Believe. You're. Absolutely. Right, &, no, I. Do. Not. Believe. Walt. Disney. Was. Racist. Gods, I. Really, wish, people. Would. Stop. Saying. That, Walt, was. A. Racist.
To all the SJW's who think this song is racist: what's so racist about a scene showing black men working for a living? Mind you this was in 1940, years before the Civil Rights Movement started. You want a racist cartoon? Watch "Coal Black and de sebben dwarfs" or "Scrub me Mamma with a Boogie Beat." And if you're gonna go off that "hairy ape" line, who in the line of hard work hasn't called someone or been called a hairy ape or worse?
its racist because its implying that black labourers were happy to work for no money in terrible conditions when that wasn't the case. slaves were not "happy workers".
I don't think this song is SUPER racist, but the black people are implying that they're slaves. -When other folks have gone to bed, they SLAVE until they're almost dead. That means they're being overworked, and the other workers aren't; they go to bed on time. -They never learned to read or write. A slave might not have attended school. -They have no idea when they will get paid. I'm not complaining, as this movie was made by a white person in 1941, a time period when many whites didn't really view black people as humans.
I think Disney only wanted to show how hard black people had to work back then. People screaming "racist!!" need try and see it from a different point of view.... yes the workers here are black... but I see it as education. And when my kids ask me why the workers in DUMBO are afro American, I'll tell them exactly why. And HOW exactly do you know that Walt Disney was a racist?? I think he wasn't but of course I don't know for sure. - a Filipino-Italian (aka foreigner!) who grew up in Germany.... which was way more racist in the 1920's upto the 1940s (when -COUGH- H!tler -COUGH- was around)..... I was lucky enough to be born in the 80s when MOST of that radical racist shit was long gone.
I'm black and not offended by the song!! If the lyrics were "Jim crow slaves tap dancing can't read or write just slaving til dawn" yes THAT is offensive! Get your panties out your rectum people it's not that deep!!
+Nate Barkley I know there was a human named Casey Jr. how ever in the transportation world, things were called she. even in a bonus clip, Disney themselves show a woman voicing Casey Jr
Nate Barkley Thats just like "Annoying Orange" when some people ask, "Is Marshmallow a boy or a girl?" Well, I heard his theme song and the lyrics say, "HE'S so cute." That means he's a he.
All you people screaming racist need to shut up for real. This movie is a real masterpiece and this scene/song is one the best in the movie,so leave ya damn politics and SJW BS out people’s childhoods plz!!!!!! Thank you and have a nice day.
This song perfectly predicted today's college liberals who constantly complain about being poor even though they live with their parents and throw whatever money they do get away on frivolous shopping sprees.
+Danilo Muller Really? Let's do a thought experiment here. Let's assume that the scene was reanimated so that all of the workers are white, representing lower-class laborers working from paycheck to paycheck in the back-breaking effort of raising and lowering the circus. Would the scene and the song still work or would you have to change the lyrics? I think if you're honest, you'd have to say that the scene would play exactly the same and you wouldn't have to make any changes to it. So if the scene works the same regardless of the race of the characters, how is it racist?
Employed blacks working hard at a job of great pay? Do tell us more, Mr. Affirmative Action. Prove to me that sissies like you can work like that like in the cartoon, complainy pants. Oh but your balls aren't big enough to have a job like that. Your character and your stature are not qualified either.
"We never learn to read or write", "We slave until we're almost dead", "Grab that rope you hairy ape". Some might find this a little offensive about what the lyrics says; but it is based on a Fact on how the world really was when Walt was alive.
I was blessed for growing up with the Latin American version, because the guys said that they were working there because they chose not to study; so that movie encouraged me to study a lot and appreciate the effort that people involved in very high physical works do :'D
That scene around 0:40 is highly underrated. The train that enters the station in that gloomy setting with thunderstorms and clouds in the background, simply brilliant!
this part always freaked me out as a kid.
Roustabout: an unskilled or casual laborer. this comment goes out to those honest men who work their asses off in Blistering sun and bitter cold for the paycheck to pay the bills, they are the real man who built this country and keep it running. Lord give them strength and watch over their family's, remind them to smile and keep a prayer in their hearts throw out the days of their lives. we ask these things if it be your will and not ours in the name of thy holy and beloved son Jesus Christ, Amen.
Which is why I don't see why laboring jobs are considered "low-skill". It may or may not involve a lot of "people skill", and not knocking on "people skill", btw, since a pleasant coworker or good boss is definitely a good thing (or one who provides good service to a customer, you get my point), but laborers do have the type of skill to do a job many others wouldn't wanna do, couldn't handle, or do as well!
Had this song going in my head while I was out doing my job in the Arizona sun today :)
JayNohh i hear you from here in utah :)
1:34-1:50 the hammering sounds like an epic drum beat.
Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike!
We work all day, we work all night
We never learned to read or write
We're happy-hearted roustabouts
Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike!
When other folks have gone to bed
We slave until we're almost dead
We're happy-hearted roustabouts
Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike!
We don't know when we get our pay
And when we do, we throw our pay away
(When we get our pay, we throw our money all away)
We get our pay when children say
With happy hearts, "It's circus day today"
(Then we get our pay, just watching kids on circus day)
Muscles achin'
Back near breaking
Eggs and bacon what we need (Yes, sir!)
Boss man houndin'
Keep on poundin'
For your bed and feed
There ain't no let up
Must get set up
Pull that canvas! Drive that stake!
Want to doze off
Get them clothes off
But must keep awake
Hep! Heave! Hep! Heave! Hep! Heave!
Hep! Heave! Hep! Heave! Hep! Heave!
Hep! Heave! Hep!
Swing that sledge! Sing that song!
Work and laugh the whole night long
You happy-hearted roustabouts!
Pullin', poundin', tryin', groundin'
Big top roundin' into shape
Keep on working!
Stop that shirking!
Grab that rope, you hairy ape!
Poundin'! poundin'! poundin'! poundin'!
Thanks! Now I know what they're singing!
+Sudoku Brony you're welcome
Wow man thanks I never knew what the hell was said lol
2:18 I think that's some sort of carpet.
I know elephants are really big and strong naturally, but still, rolling a thing like that out takes some power. Jumbo Jr.'s mother is a powerhouse! So are the rest of the elephants, those camels and the men setting things up along with them. Speaking of the human workers, they likely weren't paid much, if anything, but obviously they've done work like that before. Working all night and day doing back-breaking labor like that? Extraordinary people, I tell ya.
It's the circus tent canvas - must weigh tons! Elephants are such beautiful creatures.
Val Killion probably because the tents was waterproofed. That added weight.
"Dumbo was made in 1941 and produced by Walt Disney. The 1940s was before the Civil Rights Movement, and although there was no slavery, blacks were still segregated and considered as lesser people at the time."
- Alyssa Nelson
Imo.. waaay better than any cgi could ever do.
The detail in these background close ups are unbelievable
I love this song since I was little.
This is such a cool scene
Epic.
The scene when the train slows down at its destination before suddenly stopping, reminds me of those nights in the warm time of the year when I, as a young child in the 80s living in a rural area, would see flashes of distant lightning like that of the cartoon of Dumbo. I have many memories of watching lightning from my rural childhood home. I never knew the lyrics to the "Song of the Roustabouts" either, and I'm a man not far from 40 years of age.
This scene is hella epic, the animation and songs are phenomenal!!! (Despite some lyrics not holding up 😵)
This movie is like a historical artifact
I. Love. This. Song!!!
This song was my childhood
I took me 12 years to figure out what the hell the train was saying
It took me 4 years to figure out that Casey was saying something. It took me another 8 to figure out WHAT he was chanting to himself.
I never paid much attention to it till recently
Flying Scott "I think I can! I think I can! I think I can! I think I can! I think I can! I think I can! I... Think... I... Can! I...
...Thought I could! I thought I could! I thought I could! I... Whoo-hoo!"
They borrowed that from "The Little Engine that Could."
Bradley Cotton so he did thanks l was sure he was saying something
Bradley Cotton oh my! Thanks!
All those guys are in the sunken place.
Wind is epic.
What do you think about The wind in the song?
Comment below.
Casey Junior’s coming down the track coming down the track with the Smokey stack hear him puffing coming round the hill Casey’s here to thrill every jack and Jill
Every time his funny little whistle sounds [train whistle blowing] everybody hurries to the circus grounds time for lemonade and crackerjack Casey Junior’s back Casey Junior’s back
Come on everybody let’s help Casey up with this big hill when the going gets tough here’s a chance to help pull you through let’s all say I think I can I think I can.
Casey Junior: I think I can, I think I can.
I think I can, I think I can.
[slowing] I think I can, I think I can.
I think I can.
I…thought I could, I thought I could.
I thought I could, I thought I could.
Whoo-hoo!
Casey Junior’s coming down the track coming down the track with the Smokey stack hear him puffing coming round the hill Casey’s here to thrill every jack and Jill
Every time his funny little whistle sounds [train whistle blowing] everybody hurries to the circus grounds time for lemonade and crackerjack Casey Junior’s back Casey Junior’s back
Every time his funny little whistle sounds [whistle blowing] everybody hurries to the circus grounds time for lemonade and crackerjack Casey Junior’s back Casey Junior’s back
[engine hissing]
[bell clanging]
[cabooses crashing]
[rain tinkling]
[train exhaling]
They very work hard to make the children happy and also you don't want to mess with them at all.
It's so catchy when you know the words
Easy now Casey Junior on the brakes don't want to give the Lions headaches or other animals
fun fact: it is possible to acknowledge a song as being racist (or problematic in any way) and still appreciate the art of it! you can even like it!
Bonnie if it’s racist, then why would we appreciate it?
So what you are saying is if they had bothered to use a bit more white paint instead of brown the Social Justice Warriors getting offended for me would be quiet as fuck?
one of the guys singing sounds like splinter from the 1987 "ninja turtles" cartoons and the door on the train car the roustabouts got out of at 1:13 is the same color as splinter's kimono
Pretty dangerous if he gets struck by lightning back then
Why is this racist? Its an artist depiction of life back in the 30s and 40s.
It's wrong that people were treated this way, but pretending it didn't happen is worse.
No Dummy! There were plenty of people that didn't spend all of their money as soon as they got their hands on it. And, they weren't "happy" about working themselves to "death". Listen to the damn
oh I didn't realize the hints towards race in the song , I'm just uh....gonna ignore that and enjoy the movie but frankly I view it as a historical piece of art that portrays how things were in the 1940s
dont be a roustabout.
1:46 "Nazis. I hate these guys."
Idk this song has many racial slurs but i think mr.walt disney was trying to defend them in a way if u listen they describe how hard it was to work in those conditions and what thier "boss man" tells them to do so i think mr. Disney was trying to show how hard they have to work and stuff idk its my opinion.
Hey, I. Believe. You're. Absolutely. Right, &, no, I. Do. Not. Believe. Walt. Disney. Was. Racist. Gods, I. Really, wish, people. Would. Stop. Saying. That, Walt, was. A. Racist.
I. Am. Talking. About. The. Second. Part, not, the. Racial. Thing. There. Are. No. Racial. Slurs, or, anything, racist, about. This. Song.
Dear. Bryson, I. Agree, with. You, on. That. I. Really, wish. People, would. Stop. Calling. Walt- Disney, a. Freaking. Racist. Gods, I. Am. So. Sick. Of. That.
2:48 hut has pizza 🍕 wings
When you listen to the lyrics, you realize that this is the most racist song in Dumbo, not the crows singing.
For your bread your feed
not bad for something that was used as a propaganda film for the Allies
True! And Warhammer 40k forever!!!
That moment when you notice the workers were black and this was during racist times
You mean during the Holocaust? (If you even know what that is because you're a Latino).
Dennis Sphatt what the fuck
Dennis Sphatt get a load of this guy...this...this is greatness
That1Latino so your sum total of American history is based off of DUMBO?? Fuckin idiot
Dumbo. May. Be. A. Flying. Elrphant. Here, but, due. To. The. Large. Size. Ears, he'd. Be. An. African. Elephant.
"We work all day, we work all night, we have no time to read or write"...
And people say the crows are racist?
To all the SJW's who think this song is racist: what's so racist about a scene showing black men working for a living? Mind you this was in 1940, years before the Civil Rights Movement started. You want a racist cartoon? Watch "Coal Black and de sebben dwarfs" or "Scrub me Mamma with a Boogie Beat." And if you're gonna go off that "hairy ape" line, who in the line of hard work hasn't called someone or been called a hairy ape or worse?
its racist because its implying that black labourers were happy to work for no money in terrible conditions when that wasn't the case. slaves were not "happy workers".
They're being sarcastic, mia opara. Or ironic; take your pick.
ill stick to prejudiced thanks
I don't think this song is SUPER racist, but the black people are implying that they're slaves.
-When other folks have gone to bed, they SLAVE until they're almost dead. That means they're being overworked, and the other workers aren't; they go to bed on time.
-They never learned to read or write. A slave might not have attended school.
-They have no idea when they will get paid.
I'm not complaining, as this movie was made by a white person in 1941, a time period when many whites didn't really view black people as humans.
They're describing day laborer conditions. I know Disney was "racist" in the 40s, but they wouldn't have made this a song about actual slaves.
Good ol slave symbolism, slavebolism!
I think Disney only wanted to show how hard black people had to work back then. People screaming "racist!!" need try and see it from a different point of view.... yes the workers here are black... but I see it as education. And when my kids ask me why the workers in DUMBO are afro American, I'll tell them exactly why. And HOW exactly do you know that Walt Disney was a racist?? I think he wasn't but of course I don't know for sure.
- a Filipino-Italian (aka foreigner!) who grew up in Germany.... which was way more racist in the 1920's upto the 1940s (when -COUGH- H!tler -COUGH- was around)..... I was lucky enough to be born in the 80s when MOST of that radical racist shit was long gone.
I'm black and not offended by the song!! If the lyrics were "Jim crow slaves tap dancing can't read or write just slaving til dawn" yes THAT is offensive! Get your panties out your rectum people it's not that deep!!
This song is very racist and offensive but I give it a tentative pass because of when it was made.
That horrible moment when you realise one of your favourite songs from the movie is actually INCREDIBLY racist......
dont understand all the Racist talk im a white electrician contractor i could se my self sing something like this just as hard labor
Disney got Casey Jr wrong. Casey Jr is a she not a he.
+Nate Barkley I know there was a human named Casey Jr. how ever in the transportation world, things were called she. even in a bonus clip, Disney themselves show a woman voicing Casey Jr
'Everytime HIS funny little whistle sounds,'
Nate Barkley Thats just like "Annoying Orange" when some people ask, "Is Marshmallow a boy or a girl?" Well, I heard his theme song and the lyrics say, "HE'S so cute." That means he's a he.
Say What! So your saying Casey Jr is a she Like Tillie.
All you people screaming racist need to shut up for real.
This movie is a real masterpiece and this scene/song is one the best in the movie,so leave ya damn politics and SJW BS out people’s childhoods plz!!!!!!
Thank you and have a nice day.
This song perfectly predicted today's college liberals who constantly complain about being poor even though they live with their parents and throw whatever money they do get away on frivolous shopping sprees.
That is so racists on part of the movie
nobody realises this is a racist song
The most evil Disney song ever.
Nester Beauregard Why is it evil?
KeeferJ 1995 uh, beacause its racist.
Nester Beauregard I know that, but I don't see anything evil about it.
KeeferJ 1995 you don’t think racism is Evil? Lol
Sounds like a socialist workers song,
a bunch of black guys singing about being poor, uneducated, spending all their hard earned money on booze seems like a socialist workers song to you?
LOL
racist
+Michael Jackson Pretentious liberal....
Wow, a racist song on a children's cartoon...
+Danilo Muller Really? Let's do a thought experiment here. Let's assume that the scene was reanimated so that all of the workers are white, representing lower-class laborers working from paycheck to paycheck in the back-breaking effort of raising and lowering the circus.
Would the scene and the song still work or would you have to change the lyrics? I think if you're honest, you'd have to say that the scene would play exactly the same and you wouldn't have to make any changes to it.
So if the scene works the same regardless of the race of the characters, how is it racist?
+Danilo Muller Oh shut up.
+Danilo Muller Disney cartoons are not for children. Children can never understand what Walt Disney had to tell.
It's not that racist compared to
Scrub me Mamma with a Boogie Beat.
Employed blacks working hard at a job of great pay? Do tell us more, Mr. Affirmative Action. Prove to me that sissies like you can work like that like in the cartoon, complainy pants. Oh but your balls aren't big enough to have a job like that. Your character and your stature are not qualified either.
this part always freaked me out as a kid.
the
Odd, this was my favorite part!
Me too Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Why? What's to be afraid of?
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