Tony Furtado - Oh Berta, Berta free for downloading

The original song doesn't need instruments. This is awful.

Few songs put goose bumps on my arms, this is one sure did. Thank you Tony for bringing this song to us from its origins. I don’t doubt that the originators would smile at the first few notes and break out into a full dance by the chorus. Great job.

Without any regards to the origins of this song, & my not knowing of Tony Furtado until recently hearing this song/version on the radio, I just wanted to say that the beat to me alone, plus the bottleneck slide and vocals I think it kicks a**.

Genius! Greets from Germany :)

Plagiarized practically word for word straight from the pages of 'The Piano Lesson', much original, such impressive song writing [sarcasm]

Get over yourselves Jarrod and Chelsea and Yorhed. Music lives and breathes and grows. And guess what! It also transmits between cultures and eras. And instrumentation changes too. Musicians have always played tunes that they did not write, and that is not called plagiarism. Sheesh! How about recognizing this fine performance for what it is without trying to lay some sophomoric political trip on top of it.

This song's ORIGINS are in an African American prison in the 1930s and 40s. They MADE it with the resources they had available to them, and these white guys think they have the artistic license to come onto a radio show in 2012 with a bunch of acoustic instruments (which, wtf? it's meant to be based off of percussion and a beat; call-and-response, not ambling acoustic melodies) and make a terrible cover out of it...? This isn't a folk-Americana song and it shouldn't be. This is embarrassing and shameful.