Who is Joe Turner?

Answer 1

He is a man that kid napped slaves that were freed.Then he'd force them into labor in his chain gang for many years.Turner is supposed to represent a white racist man from the evil of the south.

Like in the song Joe Turner's Come and Gone

(a classic jazz song by August Wilson)

* the first and 2nd lines are one long line of bars with words and music.They are always the same * then a 3rd line of 4-bars to rhyme with the first and second lines

the song goes like this:

# They tell me Joe Turner's come and gone(repeat) 3. He left me here to sing this song

# He came here with forty links of chain(repeat) 3. He left me here to sing this song

# Joe Turner, he took my man away(repeat) 3. He left me here to sing this song

Answer 2

lyrics by Big Bill Broonzy

This is a song was sung back in 18 and 92There was a terrible flood that yearPeople lost everything they had

Their crops, their live stockThat means their horses, their mules, cowsGoats and everything they had on their farm

And they would start cryin' and singin' this song

They tell me, Joe Turner been here and goneLord, they tell me, Joe Turner been here and goneThey tell me, Joe turner been here and gone

Then they would go out hunting rabbits, 'coons and 'possomsAnything they could catchSometimes they would catch something, then again they didn't

And when they would come home, they would findFlour meat and molassesIn their homes and they would know thatJoe Turner had been there and left food for them

And they would start cryin' and singin' this song

They tell me, Joe Turner been here and goneLord, they tell me, that Joe turner been here and goneThey tell me, Joe Turner been here and gone

Then they would start out lookin' for woodAnd stuff to make a fireAnd they would look in their yards, and they would find axes, woodThat Joe Turner had brought there for them

Then they would get happyAnd start singin' and cryin' this songThey would get happy and do a little boogie-woogie too