Know that Ice Cream truck song? Racism still alive, they just be concealing it

[really tho]

Recall That Ice Cream Truck Song? We Have Unpleasant News For You : Code Switch : NPR



EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is about a virulently racist song. Read no further if you wish to avoid racist imagery and slurs.

Origin Of The Song

I wondered how such a prejudiced song could have become the anthem of ice cream and childhood summers. I learned that though Mr. Browne was fairly creative in his lyrics, the song's premise and its melody are nearly as old as America itself. As often happens with matters of race, something that is rather vanilla in origin is co-opted and sprinkled with malice along the way.

 

[Sonny Corinthos]

No shyt you really do learn something new every day

 

[Harry Sax]

#inherently

 

[I'm Billy FUCO!!]

Animaniacs used that music for the state capitals song that Wakko did

 

[Dreadknox77]

Last summer I heard someone driving by playing "Aint worried about nothin" I was wondering who the fukk is playin that shyt so loud...

It was the ice cream man

Wasn't even feeling for ice cream that day, but i bought sum just because he was doin something different.

I feel much better about that purchase now

 

[Remote]

I don't recall ever hearing this song playing from the ice cream truck in my neighborhood.
But this is some wild shyt.

 

[I'm Billy FUCO!!]

Last summer I heard someone driving by playing "Aint worried about nothin" I was wondering who the fukk is playin that shyt so loud...

It was the ice cream man

Wasn't even feeling for ice cream that day, but i bought sum just because he was doin something different.

I feel much better about that purchase now

That reminds me......anyone remember that commercial with the dancing ice cream man and the techno music? Sometime back in the late 90s?

The ice cream man in my neighborhood played that shyt on a loop one summertime when he was passing through, instead of the regular-ass kiddie music

I was bussin' out dance moves every time he passed through

EDIT: this one

 

[Harry Sax]

My ice cream truck used to play this



But it was the regular version...fukk YouTube

 

[Heretic]

This shyt is gotdamn mind blowing. fukk that catchy racist ass jingle.

 

[ScoopNScore]

Hardly ever heard this one. It was either the Mr. Softee song around my block or "Coming Round The Mountain" with that annoying HELLO in the beginning if you lived in Bushwick or Bedstuy.

As for this song, it's pretty much beat sampling gone horribly wrong. What was supposed to be an innocent folk song became a disgusting cover that tarnishes its legacy. I'm just glad the original song wasn't meant to be that way.

For his creation, Browne simply used the well-known melody of the early 19th-century song "," which dates back to the even older and traditional British song "." The tune was brought to America's colonies by Scots-Irish immigrants who settled along the Appalachian Trail and added lyrics that mirrored their new lifestyle.

 

[sanityovar8ted]

I always thought it was do yo ears hang low.

 

[Matt504]

Columbia records brehs.

 

[posterchild336]

C'mon have you never paid attention to the lyrics of ba ba black sheep nursery rhyme YouTube it and then look at lyrics and you will see its a racist song instilled in kids... Check it out

 

[Matt504]

As quickly as it began, the music paused, and this call-and-response ensued:

Browne: "You ******s quit throwin' them bones and come down and get your ice cream!"

Black men (incredulously): "Ice Cream?!?"

Browne: "Yes, ice cream! Colored man's ice cream: WATERMELON!!"

My mouth dropped. The music immediately resumed and so did the racism. I soon realized that the ice cream truck song was forever ruined for me, especially once the chorus began:

****** love a watermelon ha ha, ha ha!

For here, they're made with a half a pound of co'l

There's nothing like a watermelon for a hungry c00n

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[Green negs and spam]

They play Greensleeves in the UK.