"Black Betty" is a 20th century African-American work song . The song was first recorded in the field by U.S. musicologists John and Alan Lomax in 1933, performed a cappella by the convict James Baker (also known as Iron Head) and a group at Central State Farm, Sugar Land, Texas (a State prison farm).It was recorded commercially in New York in 1939 by Lead Belly, an iconic American folk and blues musician.
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