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All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
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"'All God's Chillun Got Rhythm'" is a 1937 jazz standard. It was written by Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn and Bronisaw Kaper especially for Ivie Anderson, who performed it in the Marx Brothers' 1937 film 'A Day at the Races', the tune was also used for the opening theme.
The lyrics state that "All God's Children Got Rhythm" even if they "maybe haven't got money, maybe haven't got shoes". The authors (European immigrants from Poland, Germany, and Austria) were likely influenced by a traditional Negro spiritual "All God's Chillun Got Wings" alternately called "All God's Children Got Shoes" which affirms that all God's children have shoes. This was the inspiration for a Eugene O'Neill play of the same name in the 1924 and recorded by Paul Robeson,[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEtMhIB9oIg 'All God's Chillun Got Wings' sung by Paul Robeson] on YouTube who also appeared in the play.
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*List of jazz standards
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