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Thread #72644 Message #1253150
Posted By: GUEST,Lighter (w/o cookie)
21-Aug-04 - 08:46 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Roll the Cotton Down (from Leighton Robinson)
Subject: Lyr Add: ROLL THE COTTON DOWN (Leighton Robinson)
Captain Leighton Robinson sang this version of the shanty "Roll the Cotton Down" in California in 1939. For more details, see my post to the thread "Robinson's 'Hanging Johnny'."
ROLL THE COTTON DOWN
Oh, away down south where I was born,
Oh, roll the cotton down!
Oh, away down south where I was born,
Oh, roll the cotton down!
[Similarly:]
A dollar a day is the white man's pay....
I thought I heard our old man say....
We're homeward bound to Mobile Bay....
Oh, hoist away that yard and sing....
Robinson Recordings