and concluded that they all have their origins quite literally in counting. A flight attendant, trying to speed along the process in a cutesy way, got on the intercom and said “Eeeny meeny miney mo, pick a seat, we’ve gotta go. Some scholars have studied the familiar ' eenie, meenie, miney mo ' and its. Once people get on board, they’re supposed to pick a seat quickly and settle in.Īs I heard it, on one Southwest flight, a number of people (including two black women) seemed to be taking their sweet time getting seated. You don’t pick a seat until you get on board. So give me the night To show you, hold you Dont leave me out. Right You seem like the type To love em and leave em And disappear right after this song. Your ticket gets you on a plane, but it doesn’t get you a specific seat. Eenie meenie miney mo Catch a bad chick by her toe If she holla (if, if, if she holla) let her go Shes indecisive She cant decide She keeps on lookin From left to right Girl, cmon get closer Look in my eyes Searchin is so wrong Im Mr. On Southwest Airlines, w low-fare, no-frills carrier, most seats are not pre-assigned. **I heard a story about 2 black sisters suing Southwest Airlines because of its seating policy in which a Southwest employee uses the phrase to determine who gets seating. He was also the same man who during the same year, released the song, Nigger Love A Watermelon.*Originally posted by Jackknifed Juggernaut * I'm particularly interested in documented some examples of 'Eeenie Meenie Miney Mo' rhymes from the United States that include demographic information (particularly when and where these rhymes were/are chanted). One of the first recorded times that this song was sang was in 1916, by Harry Clinton Browne. This post doesn't include speculation about the origin/s of 'Eenie Meenie Miney Mo' rhymes. This verse is usually taken out, or the word is replaced by the word chigger, which does not make too much sense, not that the rest of the song really does either. I shut my eyes to hold my breath-Susanna, don't you cry. The bullgine bust, the horse ran off, I really thought I'd die I jumped aboard the telegraph and traveled down the river,Įlectric fluid magnified, and killed five hundred Nigger. The song sold over 100,000 copies and became the unofficial theme song of the forty-niners because it was all about traveling to California around the time of the Gold Rush.Īt first listen to the modern version of the song, you would not be able to tell that it was racist because the second verse, the racist verse, is never usually sung, and when it is, the word nigger has been taken out of it. Oh! Susanna was written in 1846 by Stephen Foster, who wrote it about his sister. This is one of the most well received American folk songs to ever be written. This is a nursery rhyme that I do not remember ever listening to, it is just one that sounds very familiar whenever I hear it and I somehow know all of the words. But, I also think that our values as a country in whole, have not changed as much as they should, because it is still ok to sing these songs, even though I do not think it is ok. This story was told to me by my grandfather.
100 they pinned every note with a thread.and the theif stole and ran away with 100 rs. The shift in our community values as Americans is shown in the way that the racist parts of the songs have been changed, which I agree is the good and right thing to do. Answer (1 of 7): Akkad and Bakkad were two friends.they want to go to Bombayso they want to gather 100 rs. These nursery rhymes show to me how superior white people thought that they were over people like African Americans and Native Americans. I feel like these songs are just ways that are used to put down people of other races, even if the people singing them are not aware of it. I also chose to talk about this because I cannot understand how songs with such racist origins, are still socially acceptable to be singing. They are songs that we still sing to our children and songs that pretty much everybody here in America is familiar with.
The reason that I wanted to cover this topic for my project was because I thought that the nursery rhymes that I picked specifically to talk about, are ones that are still relevant in our society today.
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