They sing it so the slaves would sing it while they were working to tell other slaves to follow the drinking gourd big dipper the tonight and it will lead them to freedom.
North Star
The Dyza Boys sung Nekeca.
Punjabi is the language that most bhangra music is sung in. How it is sung would depend on the particular song, whether it is fast or a slower song.
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"A Load of Hay" by Howard Barnes, late 1940s-1950. Sung by Doris Day and probably others.
the dad army theme was sung by Bud Flanagan
it was sung by runaway slaves. the 'drinking gourd' is in reference to the big dipper (the stars)
The "Drinking Gourd" is an alternate name of the Big Dipper, an asterism (star formation) in the northern sky. The dipper stars in the "bowl" of the Big Dipper point to Polaris, the pole star. Walking towards the pole star (following the Drinking Gourd) takes you northwards.
A drinking gourd is simply a gourd (kind of like a dried out squash) that had been hollowed out to use as a sort of ladle to contain liquid.
The web address of the Drinking Gourd Project is: www.drinkinggourdproject.org
the secret code
The address of the Drinking Gourd Project is: Po Box 506, Concord, MA 01742-0506
the drinking gourd
constillations
The code word for the Big Dipper in the underground railroad song was "Follow the Drinking Gourd." This was a reference to using the constellation of the Big Dipper as a navigational guide to escape to the North.
follow the drinking gourd
on youtube or you can look in a book or at school
Reading Rainbow - 1983 Follow the Drinking Gourd 10-1 was released on: USA: 18 October 1993