Johnny Roach

Johnny Roach

"Johnny Roach" is an American song written by blackface minstrel composer Dan Emmett. The song was first published in 1859. The lyrics tell of a slave who has escaped to the Northern United States. He laments his lost plantation home and realizes that he really belongs in the South:

:To Canada old John was bound:All by de railroad underground;:He's got no clothes—he's got no "tin":He wishes he was back agin.Quoted in Nathan 244.]

The song is notable for being the first printed reference to the South as “Dixie’s Land”:

:Gib me de place called "Dixie's Land,":Wid hoe and shubble in my hand;:Whar fiddles ring an' banjos play,:I'll dance all night an' work all day.

A portion of the chorus was repeated in "Dixie" with slight variation. [Nathan 254.]

Notes

References

*Nathan, Hans (1962). "Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy". Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.


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