Ol' Man River

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"Ol' Man River" is a show tune from the 1927 musical Show Boat with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, who wrote the song in 1925. The song contrasts the struggles and hardships of African Americans with the endless, uncaring flow of the Mississippi River.

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Image: Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.