🛑 Racism

Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah appears on our list of Problematic Songs because of its racist history, its background in blackface minstrelsy, and its derivative tune.

The lyrics derive from “Zip Coon.”

You can learn more about its history from these sources:

• Recall That Ice Cream Truck Song? We Have Unpleasant News For You. 
• Doo-dah! : Stephen Foster and the rise of American popular culture.
• Six Degrees of song of the south. 

💚 Suggested replacement song about being happy:

• The More We Get Together.