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ADD: Roll the Cotton Down (from Leighton Robinson) (22)

Lyr Add: ROLL THE COTTON DOWN (Leighton Robinson)

21 Aug 04

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

1 Away, Rio thread

2 Sally Brown thread

3 Hanging Johnny thread

4 Poor old man thread

5 Whiskey Johnny thread

6 Roll the cotton down thread

7 Goodby, fare you well thread

8 Rolling home thread

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