...I have always loved this song...but only in recent years have come to understand why.written by Oscar Hammerstein in 1927.The song expresses the african...american hardship and struggles of the time with the endless,uncaring flow of the Mississippi river.Paul Robeson...has inspired me to sing...it,and so i've recorded it again, in 2012.And i have dedicated it to my Grand father Emory Allen Graybill....1874----1915 ---Teddy Grable
