A song title and group?

"Black Betty," originally written and recorded in 1935 by Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter was covered in a rockin' electrified version by RAM JAM.

I got Ram Jam's "Golden Classics" release on CD and I love it. The entire album is awesome. A very underrated band.

Currently, Amazon.com has the 20 track CD "The Very Best of Ram Jam" starting at $7.19, second hand. Well worth it.

Compliment your son on his taste for me.

It is Black Betty

and Ram Jam sings it

You may be asking about a song that came out in the 70s called "Black Betty". Here are the lyrics:

Black Betty

By: Ram Jam

(Huddie Ledbetter)

1977

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

Black Betty had a child (Bam-ba-Lam)

The damn thing gone wild (Bam-ba-Lam)

She said, "I'm worryin' outta mind" (Bam-ba-Lam)

The damn thing gone blind (Bam-ba-Lam)

I said Oh, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

Oh, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

She really gets me high (Bam-ba-Lam)

You know that's no lie (Bam-ba-Lam)

She's so rock steady (Bam-ba-Lam)

And she's always ready (Bam-ba-Lam)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

She's from Birmingham (Bam-ba-Lam)

Way down in Alabam' (Bam-ba-Lam)

Well, she's shakin' that thing (Bam-ba-Lam)

Boy, she makes me sing (Bam-ba-Lam)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

Whoa, Black Betty BAM-BA-LAM

ANDY RATING:

Bubblegum's last gasp was this heavy-medal blues cover of an old Leadbelly song. It was big when it came out and, strangely, it never attained the lasting anthem appeal of a Rock And Roll Part 2 by Gary Glitter or We Are The Champions by Queen.

NOTES:

. . . lead guitarist Bill Bartlett performed the same duties for The Lemon Pipers . . . produced by Jeff Katz and Jerry Kasenetz . . . other than these two gum connections, why is this song considered Bubblegum? The Indian drum beat and the gong, silly . . . the NAACP and other groups called for a boycott of the song . . . according to Bartlett in Wayne Jancik's book The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, "[They say that] 'Black Betty' is considered an insult to black womanhood, but that's a load of hogwash. Leadbelly [Huddie Ledbetter] was black, and he wrote all the lyrics. No blacks that I've talked to find the song offensive" . . .

I'm pretty sure you mean "Black Betty" by Ram Jam.

does it start off like this and if it dosent sorry i searched really hard to find it

My name it is Joe Bowers;

I have a brother Ike.

I came from old Missoura,

All the way from Pike.

I used to know a girl there;

Her name was Sally Black.

I asked her if she'd marry me;

She said it was a whack.

She said to me, "Joe Bowers.

Before we hitch for life,

You'd

Gone Daddy Gone from the Violent Femmes? Just a guess here

Do you mean "Black Water" by the Doobie Brothers?

Well, I built me a raft and shes ready for floatin

Ol mississippi, shes callin my name

Catfish are jumpin

That paddle wheel thumpin

Black water keeps rollin on past just the same

Old black water, keep on rollin

Mississippi moon, wont you keep on shinin on me

Old black water, keep on rollin

Mississippi moon, wont you keep on shinin on me

Old black water, keep on rollin

Mississippi moon, wont you keep on shinin on me

Yeah, keep on shinin your light

Gonna make everything, pretty mama

Gonna make everything all right

And I aint got no worries

cause I aint in no hurry at all

Well, if it rains, I dont care

Dont make no difference to me

Just take that street car thats goin up town

Yeah, Id like to hear some funky dixieland

And dance a honky tonk

And Ill be buyin evrybody drinks all roun

Old black water, keep on rollin

Mississippi moon, wont you keep on shinin on me

Old black water, keep on rollin

Mississippi moon, wont you keep on shinin on me

Old black water, keep on rollin

Mississippi moon, wont you keep on shinin on me

Yeah, keep on shinin your light

Gonna make everything, pretty mama

Gonna make everything all right

And I aint got no worries

cause I aint in no hurry at all

Id like to hear some funky dixieland

Pretty mama come and take me by the hand

By the hand, take me by the hand pretty mama

Come and dance with your daddy all night long

I want to honky tonk, honky tonk, honky tonk

With you all night long

sure it's not Black Betty?

Could this be it?

Black Betty

By: Ram Jam

(Huddie Ledbetter)

1977

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

Black Betty had a child (Bam-ba-Lam)

The damn thing gone wild (Bam-ba-Lam)

She said, "I'm worryin' outta mind" (Bam-ba-Lam)

The damn thing gone blind (Bam-ba-Lam)

I said Oh, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

Oh, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

She really gets me high (Bam-ba-Lam)

You know that's no lie (Bam-ba-Lam)

She's so rock steady (Bam-ba-Lam)

And she's always ready (Bam-ba-Lam)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

She's from Birmingham (Bam-ba-Lam)

Way down in Alabam' (Bam-ba-Lam)

Well, she's shakin' that thing (Bam-ba-Lam)

Boy, she makes me sing (Bam-ba-Lam)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-Lam)

Whoa, Black Betty BAM-BA-LAM