"Lordy Miss Claudie" - Was a sung by Little Richard (I think it was him wasn't it?) around the time we 60-year-olds were teenagers.

Thinking as a dance caller - and this is pure speculation on my part -"Pick a bale of cotton" following a direction like "Jump down turn around" sounds to me a lot like a filler. As in: "Chicken in the breadbox pickin' up dough".

Cheers, Joy