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Oct 7, 2015
Great song & lyrics.
This song was written by Oscar Hammerstein II in 1927 and music was composed by Jerome Kern while Paul Robeson later sung it for the 1936 film "Show Boat". The credit for the song should go to Oscar and Jerome. It's a great masterpiece of Oscar Hammerstein II though he being a white American with Jewish background, touched the deep values of humanity and the hardship of the African Americans in the early years of the last century.