Because teachers were forced to after integration. This is a song about a lazy slave who’s trying to sleep on the “job” but a fly is keeping him awake: Shew! Fly, don’t bother me, Shew! Fly, don’t bother me, Shew! Fly, don’t bother me, I belong to Comp’ny G. I feel, I feel, I feel, That’s what my mother said, Whenever this nigger goes to sleep, He must cover up his head.
If I sleep in the sun this nigger knows, If I sleep in the sun this nigger knows, If I sleep in the sun this nigger knows, A fly come sting him on the nose. And back in 2012, parents were to keep it out of schools. Little Monkeys Did you ever sing “five little monkeys jumping on the bed/one fell off and bumped his head?” Well those lyrics used to be “five little niggers” lying in the bed. For some reason they thought changing it to “monkeys” was better. These are the original lyrics recorded in American Ballads and Folk Songs: Two little Niggers lyin’ in bed/ One of ‘em sick an’ de odder mos’ dead/ Call for de doctor an’ de doctor said/ Feed dem darkies on short’nin bread/ Mammy’s little baby loves short’nin short’nin/ Mammy’s little baby loves short’nin bread. Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport The Australian children’s group “The Wiggles” got in trouble for singing this racist song about emancipating an “Abo” (a racial slur for Aboriginals) after he’s been worked for so many years he was no longer of any use.