WOW, great info and post! So, is RAM JAM from Jersey?

They're aussies

Thanks for the info.

Michael O'Connor Lol the remake was done by Aussies! (Spiderbait)

@@BenSmith-xg5xb pretty sure ram jam is aussie

A black woman from Alabama with moonshine and a musket?

Possibly

The muskets were made in Birmingham, Alabama

Sounds like a fun time to me, That woman must be wild lol.

third verse is actually about the slaver's whip.

In the superhero novel series Action Figures, there's a sorceress villain named Black Betty. Her catch phrase is of course "Bam a lam!"

like di do didido

muskets can have children?

@@steve2653 the song is about a gun, not a person.

@@steve2653 Never heard of the expression, "Son of a gun?"

I see this comment all the time and it is from the world of stupid. The lyrics have nothing to do with a gun. Why not try to comprehend what Lead Belly said the song is about.

@@steve2653 they birth bullets or musket balls so yes

Eddie Piszczek. Same. We make quite the entrance. Lol. 🇬🇧

Oh ok that’s dope I had no clue

@@leeperola7023 Sounds like we got the makings to be quite the tag team. Lol

@@ScribeCash that's not true it was a song sang by prison aka slaves of America its a early blues song and there's audio to prove it unlike this colonial theory of it been a British marching song pfft smh

When you Google it, it shows it as an old black railroad song recorded in the 20's I do not claim to be a Black Betty expert so don't reply to me cause I just don't care

House of the rising sun goes back to prior to the civil war, no historical clue if it's origins are black or white, most likely cajun or mixed race. as the vast majority of prostitutes in the early 1800s thru the civil war in New Orleans where cajun, very few white, and far fewer black. This song black Betty was passed down as house was through oral singing, originating from blacks some time before the 1900s,it has the rhythm and cadence of many typical black work songs of the period., sung in working groups working in the fields to keep the pace of the labor in a style known as call and response, one person sings out a line or two and the others refrain with reply in repeated words ,sounds or moans and groans. This style or work songs were also used by all kinds of people in labor jobs of groupsof people like sea shanties, railroad songs and military cadences, who in fact are the only group of people who still use such style in march and drill.

Leadbelly may have sung it, but he didn't write it. It is ancient in origin, as noted above. There is YOUR history lesson!

@@ejdiii333 Both "The House Of The Rising Sun" and "St. James Infirmary Blues" have roots in a 17th or 18th century Northern England folk song called "The Unfortunate Rake" which in itself bears little resemblance to either song ... but following the immigration of English/Irish and Scots/Irish (Ulster Irish) along the "Great Wagon Road" into the Appalachians and through the western Smokies Alan Lomax, who recorded a young girl named Georgia Turner singing the song , House of the Rising Sun acappella in the Appalachian hills of rural Kentucky. Georgia was merely 16 when she recorded the song, but was largely mum on where she had learned it. Lomax included the song in the popular Library of Congress album Our Singing Country in 1941. Notable folk singer Clarence Ashley actually did make an earlier recording of the same song in 1933, where his version is definitively in the bluegrass style. Clarence had said that he learned the song from his grandfather, meaning the song’s origins can be dated to considerably older than 1933. What is interesting is that, while both Ashley and Turner come from the Appalachia region, Clarence was from Tennessee and Georgia was from Kentucky. The two were over 100 miles apart, a considerable distance in the 1930s, yet both sang eerily similar versions of the song. (Credit to American Blues Scene / Matt Marshall)

@@ralphkern380 Yes, 'House of the rising sun' was a London Brothel.

You aint lying. Leadbelly sings another song first, but you need to hear this, because if you are sufficiently rock and roll a pair of hands works kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibCFhqqms97YXWg.html

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Leadbelly learned this song while he was in prison for a murder that he did not commit (it was one of two separate murder cases in which he was imprisoned, but later released upon appeal). Upon his release, Leadbelly recorded one verse of this song. Ram Jam covered the song, but added two new verses to the song.

That sick guitar riff though... that is unique to this version and is beyond awesome

Nope. The original is von the 30's. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qs9zeLmdxJ-RfYE.html

Its at least 150 yrs old, maybe more.

That goes back to the at least the late 1800's.

I also see some comments about Leadbelly and the origins of this song and I can confirm he did say that this song originated from him and taught us about who Leadbelly was and we listened to his music.

Which is where Ram Jam took there inspiration from as it's not exactly copied .

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SHOULD!? nay MUST! & do another video reaction to the solo section! 😃

Its only a minute or so longer. I was disappointed. This version is just fine.

Nobody ever reacts to the long version. Idk why

John Santo Rawluszki that’s because the NAACP is a group of racist scum.

@@BenDover-tb8cr = Truth & Facts.

Haters gonna hate.

@Andre McGoo this song is about a musket, not a black woman. Hence the lyric " blam alam." During the revolutionary war, soldiers carried a " Brown Bess." The next generation of musket was called a " Black Betty." Not everything has to do with race. Anyone who knows anything about military history knows what a Black Betty is.

Mr Magoo needs glasses.

Yep, actually my next door neighbor I remember them playing back there all the time when I was a kid.

@@seanhaase2796 Cool! small world eh?

I believe you nailed it.