Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Mo: Racist Nursery Rhymes You Didn’t Know You Were Learning
- By
Meg Butler
Jimmy Crack Corn
I remember singing “Jimmy Crack Corn” as a kid and thinking that it mentioning “massa” was a little weird. But I had no idea that this was a minstrel song with lyrics about a slave who can go back to drinking all of the corn whisky he wants because his master is dead.
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