Ol' Man River
"Ol' Man River" ( music by Jerome Kern , lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II ) is a show tune from the 1927 musical "Show Boat" that contrasts the struggles and hardships of African Americans with the endless , uncaring flow of the Mississippi River . 
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