Pick a Bale of Cotton
Jump down, turn around to pick a bale of cotton
Jump down, turn around to pick a bale a day.*
cho: Oh Lordy, pick a bale of cotton,
Oh Lordy, pick a bale a day.
That nigger from Shiloh can pick a bale of cotton
That nigger from Shiloh can pick a day.
Me and my gal can pick etc.
Me and my wife etc.
Me and my buddy etc.
Me and my poppa etc.
Takes a might big man to etc.
NOTE: A bale of cotton weighs about a quarter of a ton. Nobody ever picked
a bale in a day. An astounding number of folkies sing "pick a bale of
hay". That's not bragging; it's just silly. You don't pick hay. RG
RG
Thanks to Mudcat for the Digital Tradition!