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Black Betty is an old African American Slave song. It was sung during menial tasks to keep up moral.

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that song came out in 1977 by Ram Jam

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The first recording of "Black Betty" was in 1933 by a singer (in prison) named "Ironhead" Baker, and recorded again in 1939 by the more popular (and also a prisoner) singer "Leadbelly" Ledbetter.

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