• Little pickaninnies listen to the tale of a place that I know
  It's twice as high as the moon
  You get there in a balloon
  
  Haven't you been told of the place where the good little pickaninnies go?
  I've just been there so I ought to know
  Great big watermelons roll around and get in your way
  In the pickaninny heaven
  
  Luscious pork chop bushes growin' right outside your doorway
  In the pickaninnies' heaven
  I've heart that they've even got a Swannee River made of real lemonade
  And though the good lord took your mammy
  She'll be waiting for you In the pickaninny heaven
  Heaven
  Heaven
  
  They eat the windows and doors
  They eat the ceilings and floors
  Every kind of pet from a big teddy bear to a little Mickey Mouse
  And old Black Joe is their Santa Claus
  
  I've heart that they've even got a Swannee River made of real lemonade
  And though the good lord took your mammy
  She'll be waiting for you In the pickaninny heaven
  Heaven
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Comments: 4

• Bill from UsaWe have absolutely got to start understanding that life 70 or 80 or 100 years ago is History. Was there bias? Yes. Was it wrong? Yes. But did they know it? No. A real good example: at the time of Christ, Jewish men were not considered ready for marriage until they were 30 years old. Who did they marry? Teenagers. It was correct. It was “policy.” Policy doesn’t have to make sense. It’s the way things were.
• David Mcdonald from MassachusettsThat was disturbing on so many levels, it boggles the mind. I had seen the lyrics before, but I had never heard it performed. A lullaby? It sounded like an Athletic fight song for black orphans. Let me ask this question: If i had substituted "wop", "mick", or "polack" for pickaninny, and used terms like "meatballs", "potatoes", "kielbasa" for pork chops, would it still be just a silly song? It is a sorry excuse for a tune, no matter who wrote it, or recorded it.
• William Sanders from New YorkIf Smith is fair game for ''Darkies,'' why not famed American singer, Paul Robeson, who is credited as Producer of the Smith recording, and who also recorded that song? Is it because he was black?
• Bd from VicksburgGod bless America and Kate Smith!

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